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Madam C.J. Walker the making of an American icon
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon/ Erica L. Ball. |
| 개인저자 | Ball, Erica,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (xvi, 147 pages). |
| 총서사항 | Library of African American Biography |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Ball, Erica. Madam C.J. Walker. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2021] 9781442260382 |
| ISBN | 9781442260399 1442260394 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Daughter -- Migrant -- Madam Walker -- Businesswoman -- Race woman -- Icon -- Epilogue. |
| 요약 | "Madam C. J. Walker--reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire--has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and working-class African American women. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire and a philanthropist wealthy enough to own a country estate near the Rockefellers in the prestigious New York town of Irvington-on-Hudson. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker's times. Ball analyzes Walker's remarkable acts of self-fashioning, and explores the ways that Walker (and the Walker brand) enabled a new generation of African Americans to bridge the gap between a nineteenth-century agrarian past and a twentieth-century future as urban-dwelling consumers."-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Walker, C. J., -- Madam,1867-1919. Walker, C. J., -- Madam,1867-1919. -- fast -- |
| 주제명(지명) | United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | African American women executives --Biography. Women executives --United States --Biography. African American executives --United States --Biography. Women millionaires --United States --Biography. Millionaires --United States --Biography. Businesswomen --United States --Biography. Women philanthropists --United States --Biography. African American philanthropists --United States --Biography. African American executives. African American philanthropists. African American women executives. Businesswomen. Millionaires. Women executives. Women millionaires. Women philanthropists. |
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