She is well known for making her fortune creating a successful line of beauty and hair products for black women at an affordable price. Working with sales agent Annie Malone ( also an entrepeneur) and a denver pharmacist Madam C.J. Walker was able to perfect her line of hair products and cosmetics and begin her business.
Madam C.J. Walker's salon and beauty school.
In 1906 she celebrated her second marriage with a newspaperman named Charles Joseph Walker and started her offcial company: Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company.
Sadly Madam C.J. Walker passed on May 25th,1919 leaving behind daughter A'Lelia Walker, she was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. She left 2/3 of her estate to educational institutions such as the NAACP and Bethune-Cookman College. Her donation of $5,000 to the NAACP was the largest pledge they had ever received. Long after her passing in 1919 she was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1992.
Today A'Lelia Bundles great-great grandaughter of Madam C.J. Walker has a New York Times best seller called On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. She is currently working on writing a book on her great grandmother A'Lelia Walker who was titled "The Joy Goddess of Harlem's 1920's" by Langston Hughes due to the lavish parties she threw in her mother (Madam C.J. Walker's) home during the Harlem Renissance.
A'Leila Walker
A'Leila Bundles
Madam C.J. Walker was a great figure in black history who did phenomal things despite the hard times she may have faced. You can read more about Madam C.J. Walker and her family on the official website MadamCJWalker.com.
"I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations...I have built my own factory on my own ground."
-Madam C.J. Walker
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