#cj walker

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Chuck Styles --   In the words of Ms. CJ, “RUN IT!”

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Fun Fact ✨

Madame C.J. Walker was the first Black person in the US to own a swimming pool 🙂

Fun Fact Part 2: Madame CJ Walker didn't buy this house pre-owned or just get some white company to build Villa Lewaro. she hired the FIRST African-American architect in New York, to do it. His name was Vertner Tandy... one of the 7 founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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Eden Duncan-Smith as C.J. Walker in SEE YOU YESTERDAY – 2019

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Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove, 23 December 1867 – 25 May 1919)

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Get. A. Hobby.

[theessentialshandbook]

// C.J. Walker . First US Woman (self-made) millionaire, 1911.

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Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was the first Black woman millionaire in America.

Walker provided scholarships for students at several black colleges and boarding schools and supported orphanages and retirement homes. She spoke out against lynching at the Negro Silent Protest Parade and during a visit to the White House in 1917, and she advocated for the rights of African American soldiers who served in World War I.

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17/02/2021