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Posted: Dec 2nd, 2005 10:06 PM |
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Sarah Breedlove a.ka. Madam CJ Walker
Sarah Breedlove was born in Delta, Louisiana, on Dec. 23, 1867, the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove. Orphaned at six, she moved to Vicksburg with her sister, Louvenia, when she was ten. At the age of fourteen she married Moses (Jeff) McWilliams. They had a daughter, A'Lelia, born in 1885. McWilliams died in 1887, said to have been the victim of a race riot in Greenwood, Mississippi
http://www.indianahistory.org/pop_hi...le/walker.html
her husband Moses (Jeff) McWilliams passed in the riot in 1887. Madam CJ walker did not pass away until May 25, 1919, at the age of 51.
Madam CJ Walker was an inventor and businesswoman. In 1905 Sarah Breedlove developed a conditioning treatment for straightening hair. Starting with door-to-door sales of her cosmetics. She was one of the first black african american woman who was a millionaire. As her wealth grew, Madam Walker gave increasing amounts to African American charities. One of her greatest landmarks is the Madam CJ Walker theater in Indianapolis, where her business headquarters was. Madame Walker was president and sole owner, provided employment for some three thousand persons. the mansion bulit in NewYork worth then $90,000 Indiana limestone townhouse at 108-110 West 136th Street
Her great-great-granddaughter pushed for the landmark in Indianapolis,the revonation of the old building was 2.3 million. The block-square building houses a Greek-style theater, lunchroom, drugstore, beauty parlor, and private offices
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a militant civil rights fighter and crusading journalist who fought against lynching.born July 16, 1863 in Holly Springs, Mississippi the oldest in a family of eight children. Her parents had been slaves.
she became a partner in the free speech and traveled the southern states as a correspondent.
In 1895 she published a Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged cases of Lynching in the United States, 1892 - 1894.
Her husband was Ferdinand Lee Barnett an an attorney an politician, founder and editor of the Chicago Conservator and in 1896, an assistant state's attorney.
and i think she lived in Chicago and they name a housing project after her and she was cited as one of the twenty-five outstanding women in the city's history.
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Posted: Dec 2nd, 2005 10:07 PM |
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Mary Ann Shadd
an abolitionist, believed strongly in integrated education and was a teacher of Black and White students in Ontario. She was the first woman in North America to edit a newspaper. It was called the Provincial Freeman and carried stories about the terrible way Black people were treated and called for an end to slavery. In 1855 Shadd was the first woman to speak at the National Negro Convention.
http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nmas.stm
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Rose Fortune - Entrepreneur
Rose Fortune born into slavery in Virginia in 1774. She was owned by the Devone family, but her family escaped to the Nova Scotia (Canada) town of Annapolis Royal from New York City. Fortune's family were "Black Loyalists."
In the late 1700s she appointed herself policewoman of the Annapolis Royal, located on the north shore of Nova Scotia. Rose Fortune started her own business called the Lewis Transfer company in 1825. She was determined to make something of herself and make her town a safe place for all to be in.
http://www.sameshield.com/history/sshistory01.html
She lived until 1864. One of her descendants, Daurene Lewis, served as mayor of Annapolis Royal in the 1980s. A Café visitor wrote to tell us that Daurene Lewis was also the first Black female mayor in North America! (See below)
Dr. Daurene E. Lewis
http://www.coolwomen.org/coolwomen/c...6?OpenDocument
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