Madam CJ Walker Estate


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The Legacy of Madam Walker Part I

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The first "Self Made" female Millionaire

"I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground."

Madam Walker,
National Negro Business League Convention,
July 1912

http://www.madamcjwalker.com/



In 1905 Sarah's brother died and she moved to Denver, Colorado to live with her sister-in-law. When she arrived in Denver she had only $2.00 in her pocket yet she worked during the day as a cook in order to finance her part time business. At this point she met Charles Joseph "C.J." Walker, a newspaperman with an innate ability for marketing. She married Walker on January 4, 1906 and the couple set up the "Madam CJ Walker Manufacturing Company" and began placing advertisements in Black newspapers throughout the United States. Although they proved a successful team, they disagreed as to how much the company should grow. After years of struggling and suffering, Sarah wanted her company to grow immensely and divorced him in order to devote herself to the business (he stayed on as a sales agent for the company.). She continued on with many of the ideas he had passed on to her, including going door-to-door to sell the products. Her hard work paid off and in 1906 she brought her daughter Lelia, a recent college graduate, in to manage the company.

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/madamewalker.html
 
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Madam C.J. Walker: A Brief Biographical Essay
by A'Lelia Bundles

As her business continued to grow, Walker organized her agents into local and state clubs. Her Madam C. J. Walker Hair Culturists Union of America convention in Philadelphia in 1917 must have been one of the first national meetings of businesswomen in the country. Walker used the gathering not only to reward her agents for their business success, but to encourage their political activism as well. "This is the greatest country under the sun," she told them. "But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice. We should protest until the American sense of justice is so aroused that such affairs as the East St. Louis riot be forever impossible."

By the time she died at her estate, Villa Lewaro, in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, she had helped create the role of the 20th Century, self-made American businesswoman; established herself as a pioneer of the modern black hair-care and cosmetics industry; and set standards in the African-American community for corporate and community giving.

Tenacity and perseverance, faith in herself and in God, quality products and "honest business dealings" were the elements and strategies she prescribed for aspiring entrepreneurs who requested the secret to her rags-to-riches ascent. "There is no royal flower-strewn path to success," she once commented. "And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard."

http://www.madamcjwalker.com/bio_madam_cj_walker.aspx
 
Royal Blue, thanks for posting this documentary. I just finished watching part 1 and decided I didn't need to watch the others to send-off a thumbs up. This documentary should rank up there as required viewing. I remember my old grade school teachers periodically, but with consistency mentioning Madame CJ Walker. Thanks again man, time to watch part 2.
 
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Royal Blue, thanks for posting this documentary. I just finished watching part 1 and decided I didn't need to watch the others to send-off a thumbs up. This documentary should rank up there as required viewing. I remember my old grade school teachers periodically, but with consistency mentioning Madame CJ Walker. Thanks again man, time to watch part 2.
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No problem, and Kudos to your grade school teachers because mine weren't worth a d@mn, when it came to educating students about pioneers, and placing a heavy emphasis on how they succeeded! No BS, I was never taught about Madame Walker in grade school.....never. I stumbled upon her greatness.

I'm willing to bet, that most HBCUs don't use Madame Walker's greatness as a foundation in their school of business. They probably have a short Bio of her success, but no in depth study/lecture on how she made it, what she went through, and the rewards of her labor. When I learned her story, and saw her mansion, I "immediately" stopped making excuses for myself. My life took an instant change for the better, and I haven't looked back since. Madame Walker and Frederick Douglass are the epitome of hard work and common sense. The following quote keeps me going..........

Tenacity and perseverance, faith in herself and in God, quality products and "honest business dealings" were the elements and strategies she prescribed for aspiring entrepreneurs who requested the secret to her rags-to-riches ascent. "There is no royal flower-strewn path to success," she once commented. "And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard." http://www.madamcjwalker.com/bio_madam_cj_walker.aspx

Now that's motivation!
 
Guys the following link has been posted on another forum before, but given the direction of this thread I think it is appropriate to re-post it here. This one is about business man and former NBA player Junior Bridgeman.

Today his company runs 162 Wendy’s and 121 Chili’s and is No. 3 on the Restaurant Finance Monitor’s Top 200 franchisee-owned companies, with $507 million in revenue. In addition, he has other restaurant deals in the works.
http://www.franchisetimes.com/content/story.php?article=01939
 
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