"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review • Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. This biography places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker’s times.
"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review • Madam C. J. Walker—reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire—has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. This biography places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker’s times.
Erica L. Ball is a professor of History and Black Studies at Occidental College. Ball is the author of To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class (2012). She is co-editor, with Kellie Carter Jackson, of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory (2017) and co-editor, with Tatiana Seijas and Terri L. Snyder, of As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipations in the Americas (2020).
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Preface 1. Daughter 2. Migrant 3. Madam Walker 4. Businesswoman 5. Race Woman 6. Icon Epilogue A Note on Sources Index About the Author