Her Dream of Dreams The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker

Name: Her Dream of Dreams The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
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ISBN: 9780679768036

ISBN-10: 0679768033

ISBN-13: 9780679768036

Edition: N/A

Authors: Beverly Lowry

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Madam C. J. Walker is an American rags-to-riches icon. Born to former slaves in Louisiana in 1867, she went on to become a prominent African American businesswoman and the first female self-made millionaire in U.S. history. The story of her transformation from a laundress to a tremendously successful entrepreneur is both inspirational and mysterious, as many of the details of her early life remain obscure. In this superior biography, Beverly Lowry’s abundant research fleshes out Walker’s thinly documented story and frames it in the roiling race relations of her day. Walker grew up illiterate and worked as a washerwoman well into her thirties before staking her future on a “Wonderful Hair…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.97" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

The author of six novels–and ofCrossed Over, the story of her friendship with Karla Faye Tucker–Beverly Lowry is the director of the Creative Nonfiction Program at George Mason University. She lives in Washington, D.C.