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title: "The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire"
brand: "tananarive due"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire

**Brand:** tananarive due
**Price:** 164.95 DT
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- **What is this?** The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire by tananarive due
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The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Reaffirmation of The American Dream
  

*by P***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2018*

The story of Sarah Breedlove, who became the first American woman millionaire, Madam C. J. Walker, is fascinating in and of itself. But, in the hands of wordsmith Tananarive Due, the life story of one of America’s forgotten treasures is a gem on your bookshelf.Based on the preliminary research and outline by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Alex Haley, before his death, Due captures the obstacles and tenacity of being Black and a woman in the United States after reconstruction.Born on a plantation to former slaves in Delta, Louisiana in 1867 during reconstruction, Walker established the first million-dollar company, Madame C.J. Walker Laboratories, owned by a woman of color before the beginning of the suffragette movement and decades before the repel of “Jim Crow”.From “pissed” poor conditions, the 14-year-old Breedlove began her entrepreneurial career selling fried fish to longshore men on the Mississippi. After the murder of her husband at the hands of a mob, she took her only child. A’Lelia, to St. Louis. There she began washing clothes for $1.50 a day. She acquired a head ailment that infected her scalp and caused her hair loss. The constant scratching cause blistering and when a client complained about a spot on a white tablecloth, Breedlove began experimenting with homemade concoctions and store-bought products to save her business. The product cured her infection and reversed her hair loss. She began selling the elixir door to door with A’Lelia in tow.By the time of her death in 1919, Breedlove, who had remarried Charles J. Walker, had an estimated net worth of 1.5 million dollars in today’s money. The Walker Laboratories, located in Indianapolis, consisted of her own manufacturing company, a national door-to-door salesforce, a hair school in St. Louis where she taught other women how to run a hair business using “The Walker Method.”The recount of Madam C.J. Walker’s life will inspire you and give you a sense of the societal barriers she had to overcome as both a woman and African-American from both European-Americans and members of her own race. In reading this novel based on fact, your belief in the American dream will be reaffirmed.

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    Throughly captivating and very well written
  

*by D***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2000*

This is a very well written novel about the life of one of the greatest African American women and enterprenuers in the history of this country. The author did a great job of meticulously outlining the life and struggles  of Madam CJ Walker, from her very young life until the time of her death.  Although I would like to believe that all of the information contained in  the book was true and accurate (with the exception of a few characters  which the author indicates are fictional) I thought the book could have  been more self authenticating if it contained footnoted and outlined  references to certain aspects of the Madam's life referred to and mentioned  in the novel.The author had at her disposal research conducted by Alex  Hailey and refereneces to his research during the novel would have led to  more authenticity.  To that extent, it was difficult to determine which  aspects of Madam CJ Walker's life were factual and those which were  fictional. I hope in writing the novel, the author stuck as close as  possible to the events in the life of this great woman.However, all in  all, I thought the novel was very well written and captured the attention  of the reader.

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    Thankful to learn about this inspiring woman.
  

*by L***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2021*

I think it’s very important to learn about those who have contributed to elevating other people.  I am so glad that I learned about Madam CJ Walker and all that she did for Negro women. It’s an inspiring story that I hope more people will read about.

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