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Episode #524

Get Your Blade Hands Ready

#524 Get Your Blade Hands Ready
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Karen:

Beauty magnate Madam C.J. Walker

Episode sources:

  1. “Madam CJ Walker: A Brief Biographical Essay” by A’Lelia Bundles (MadamCJWalker.com)

  2. “Madam CJ Walker” by Debra Michals, PhD (National Women’s History Museum) 2015

  3. “Two Dollars and a Dream: The True Story of Madam CJ Walker” (Stanley Nelson) 1987

  4. “Fact or Fiction: Netflix’s “Self Made” and the Real Story of Madam C.J. Walker” by Priya Chhaya (National Trust for Historic Preservation) 2020

  5. “Madam CJ Walker” by Glenn Ellen Starr Stilling (EBSCO) 2023

  6. “Madame CJ Walker Storefront Model” (Center for Black Literature and Culture / Indianapolis Public Library)

  7. “Madam CJ Walker’s ‘Wonderful Hair Grower’” (National Museum of African American History and Culture)

  8. “The Madam CJ Walker’s Vegetable Shampoo” (Madame CJ Walker’s Products)

  9. “You can buy Madam CJ Walker’s Hair Care Products Today” by McKenzie Jean-Phillippe (Oprah Daily) 2020

  10. “How Madam CJ Walker Invented Her Hair Care Products” by Sara Kettler (Biography) 2021

  11. “When America’s First Woman Millionaire Stood Up to Booker T. Washington” by Diamond-Michael Scott (Black Books Black Minds) 2023

  12. “The Real A’Lelia Walker Is Much More Interesting Than the Myth” by Alelia Bundles (AleliaBundles.com)

  13. “Madam Walker, the First Black American Woman to be a Self-Made Millionaire” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr (The Root/PBS)

  14. “Hair Care Helped a Community: Black Entrepreneur Annie Malone and Poro College” by Zubin Hill (Saving Places) 2019

  15. “Self Made: Inside Madam CJ Walker’s Tumultuous Marriages” by Yohana Desta (Vanity Fair) 2020

  16. “Annie Malone and Madam CJ Walker: Pioneers of the African American Beauty Industry” (National Museum of African American History & Culture)

 
 
 

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