Preview

Sarah Breedlove's Road To Success

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
229 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Sarah Breedlove's Road To Success
Sarah Breedlove had humble beginnings. In fact, looking at her early life, she would apper to have an unpromising future. She was tbe African American daughter of former slaves who both die when she was a child. She married at age 14, had a child at age 18, and became a widow at age 20. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri anf found work doing laundry for white families. Sarah was not to be a servant for long. She had to much determination and resolve.

What propelled Sarah toward her road to success were what you might call a disastrous hair day! She developed a scalp problem and lost patches of hiar, which made her feel embarassed. She began mixing and experimenting with hair products to find a cure. In the process, she discovered the source of hers future success.
…show more content…
She took his initial's and began producing "Madame C, J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower." Soon she had a line of hair products. Madame Walker was the picture of hard work. and before long her business is thriving.

Madame Walker builded her company with high standards, demanding honesty, quality, and effort from everyone involved. Eventually, she had more than 3,000 employees, many of them womem? Within 15 years, Madame C.J. Walker had become a millionere- the first black woman to attain that

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Mrs. Sarah was a slave in Westmoreland County, and conducted an interview with Archibald Hill. She describes that she did not have an overseer for her labor, in which he expected them to do good work. If they didn’t complete the work, he was at liberty to whip them. She also describes her first time getting whipped as very unpleasant when she didn’t know how to do the labor. Garner was born in Tennessee and her mother, Jula, was born in Virginia. Garner’s husband, Theodore, was born in Blackground, and married him when she was eighteen. Her master bought him and his mother when he was 8 years old. Garner also had two brothers.…

    • 527 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    By 1978, Mary Winston-Jackson changed positions to be a human resources administrator. She served as both the Federal Women’s Program Manager in the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and as the Affirmative Action Program Manager. From then until her retirement in 1985, she helped other women and minorities advance their careers, advising them to study and take extra courses to increase their chances for…

    • 65 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld are well known as the “Grimke Sisters”. Sarah Grimke was born on November 26, 1792 and her sister Angelina Grimke was born on February 20, 1805, the youngest of 14 children. Born in South Carolina, they were raised on their parents, John Fauchereaud Grimke and Mary Smith Grimke’s, sprawling plantation. They came from a wealthy slaveholding family. Although they were sisters Sarah was like a second mother to Angelina and played a great role throughout her entire life because their mother was always busy and had 14 other children. The Sisters formed a bond like no other. From an early age they both developed an aversion to slavery and were strong advocates for women’s rights. This all began as they were…

    • 202 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Case Study: Sarah

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Sarah is a 29-year old female completing her first year of residency at a hospital in Southern California. Sarah was born to parents who immigrated to the United States in the early 1980's. Sarah is a born and raised United States Citizen who was born in extreme poverty. She spent much of her early years sharing a room with her mother and father living in a family friends' house in the outskirts of Los Angeles. Sarah's parents were physically unable to give her the attention she needed because of the two jobs they both worked.…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Clara Brown was born a slave in 1800 in Virginia. When she was very young her family moved from Virginia to Kentuky. When she was in her teens she married another slave named Richard. Her family was eventually seperated in auction. In Cara Brown was freed by her master's daghters. So she went out to find her family but she heard that her daghter Margret was dead. Then a couple months latter she found out that her daghter Paulina was dead. By the next year when Clara Brown was in her eighties she was so glad to get news about were her daghter Eliza Jane lived. Soon Clara Brown was reunited with her daghter Eiiza Jane. But soon died…

    • 120 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    She was born in 1823. She and her family were free, but they didn’t have the rights and freedoms of a white American. When Mary Ann was little her father ran a show-making business. They helped slaves traveling through the underground railroads. They gave slaves food and shoes that came from the company. Her early life wasn’t very good, because she always saw runaway slaves and wondered if they would be captured and beat to death.…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Walker herself moved to New York in 1916. She left the operations of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis to Ransom and Alice Kelly, her factory forelady and a former school teacher. She continued to oversee the business and to run the New York office. Once in Harlem, she quickly became involved in Harlem's social and political life, taking special interest in the NAACP's anti-lynching movement in which she contributed…

    • 532 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    After she was able to get her first stand started, and had the recipe changed just right, she was able to expand the business. She retired from the company, and gave leadership to her second cousin, Mr. Sam Beiler. Since Mrs. Beiler did this, she was able to write two books, that I mentioned in the paper, and go around to different places in order to tell people about her story.…

    • 346 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Madam J Walker Biography

    • 1436 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Sarah Breedlove born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, who later came to be known as Madam C. J. Walker. Her parents Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, had been enslaved before the end of the Civil War. Sarah was the first in her family to be free-born. At the age of 6 or 7 she was an orphan and survived by working in cotton fields in the Delta. By the age of 14 she married Moses McWilliams…

    • 1436 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Ursula Burns was the first black woman CEO to take over a major US company and transition to that role from another woman (Byrnes & Crockett, 2009). Ms. Burns started as an intern with Xerox in 1980 and has worked with the company permanently since 1981. Her path required a transition from her engineering roots with involvement in the organizations major transitions to color copying, reducing the workforce by 40%, Xerox’s transition from manufacturing, and its growth in managerial diversity. Since…

    • 1517 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Case Study Of DKT Polish

    • 664 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Between 2007 and 2016, the number of African American women-owned firms increased by 112 percent. Shirlynn Brownell is the face of the new American business owner. The UGA alumnus from Atlanta, Ga, is a part of this success of black female entrepreneurs.…

    • 664 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    According to a study conducted by an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1997 to 2000 the number of African American business owners has increased by 31 percent. This number increased by an even more astounding 50 percent for African American women. Also women of minority decent make up 14.5 percent of America?s private sector workforce, a substantial increase from only a decade earlier. The women in this study were African American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American. Members from each group also gained employment as officials and managers. A Census conducted in 2000 showed that African American couples who stay together earned just about as much as white couples. The number of firms owned by minority women has increased 31.5% between 1997 and 2002 that?s more than twice as fast as all women-owned firms, and more than four times the national average. Further, based on recent growth rates, in 2002 there will be 14,116 minority women-owned firms with revenues of $1 million or more, and 111 with 100 or more employees.…

    • 1368 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Female Pioneers of Medicine and Health By Emma noon 9PA and Noa Kusman 9GB Florence Nightingale ∗ Florence was born in Italy on 12th May named after the Italian city. She then moved to England with her family. ∗ In Victorian Britain, poor women worked in factories or as servants ∗ Rich women like Florence were expected to marry and look after the home, maybe do charity work ∗ Florence was very religious. From the age of 16 she believed…

    • 1127 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    1.0 Executive Summary Penny’s Hair Salon is a full-service beauty salon dedicated to consistently providing high customer satisfaction by rendering excellent service, quality products, and furnishing an enjoyable atmosphere at an acceptable price/value relationship. We will also maintain a friendly, fair, and creative work environment, which respects diversity, ideas, and hard work. Our Mission: To supply services and products that enhance our client’s physical appearance and mental relaxation. Our Motto: Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed Penny Pretty, co-owner with Frank Pretty, her husband, has worked in a prestigious, upscale salon in Brandon for the past two years. Penny has created a large client following through hard work…

    • 3362 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    cxc sba for pob

    • 2122 Words
    • 9 Pages

    From my research, it is clear to me that they have within their selves’ entrepreneurial skills that only can be acquired through years of experience. This as led Miss Parish to be a groomed, calculated risk taker and a intelligent man, respectable entrepreneurs…

    • 2122 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays