Third Grade Literature – Madam C.J. Walker
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A person whose job is to write lettters and keep records for another person or a business
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Secretary
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To give a job to; to employ
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Hired
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A building or group of buildings where things are manufactured; a plant
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Factory
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An item that is stirred or blended to a mixture
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Ingredients
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To start a case against in a court of law
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Sued
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To ask a price
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Charged
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A person who has money or property worth a million or more dollars
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Millionaire
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To give a gift of money or goods to a charity
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Donated
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Riches
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Wealth
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To direct or control
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Managed
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What type of Genre story is Madam C.J. Walker
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Biography
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The story of a real person's life that is written by another person.
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What does biography mean?
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Louisiana
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Where was Sarah Breedlove born?
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To be born free
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She was the first person is her family to do what?
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She worked with her family on a cotton farm.
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As a child, what did Sarah do?
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Fourteen years old
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How old was she when she got married?
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Twenty years old
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How old was she when her husband died?
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She and her daughter, A'Lelia, moved to St. Louis, Missouri to live with her brothers.
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Where did she go when her husband died?
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She cooked and washed clothes so that A'Lelia could go to college.
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What did she do for work in Missouri?
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At night
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When did Sarah go to school?
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Around the time that she started taking night classes.
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When did she start losing her hair?
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She started losing her hair so she got a job selling products which seemed to help her hair.
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What did Sarah start selling and why?
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She wanted to make her own hair products.
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What did Sarah want to do?
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Natural ingredients
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What did she use to make her hair products?
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in 1906, she married C.J. Walker.
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Who did Sarah marry and when?
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Madam C.J. Walker
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What did she start calling herself?
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She used her new name for her hair products - Madam C.J. Walker's Hair Products.
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What did she call her hair prodcuts?
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In 1908, she opened a beauty school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia.
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When and were did she open her beauty school?
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Her school and company gave many African American women their first jobs.
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What did her school do for other women?
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In 1910, Madam built her first factory in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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When and where did Madam C.J. walker build her first factory?
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Two lawyers, Robert Lee Brokenburr and Freeman Briley Ransom.
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Who helped Madam manage her company and what did they do?
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Violet Davis Reynolds
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Who was her secretary and good friend?
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They traveled together and showed other black women that they could start a business too.
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What did Madam and Violet do together?
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From $2 to $10 dollars a week
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How much did most worker's make in 1910?
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$20 or more a week
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How much were Madam Walker's hair culturists making in a week?
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950 salespeople
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How many employees did she have working in the company after a year?
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$1,000 a month
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How much was the company earning a month being in business for a year?
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She put the money back into the business.
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What did Madam Walker doing with her company earnings or profit?
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About $250,000 a year
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How much was the company earning by 1918?
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America's first female self-made millionaire - white or black!
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Madam Walker made history by becoming what?
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To make life better for her family and the people who worked for her.
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How did Madam use her money?
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She gave freely to churches, schools, hospitals, children's himes, and other good causes.
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How did she use her money to do good for others?
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Civil Rights
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What were Madam and A'Lelia always interested in?
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Laws kept black people and white people apart.
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What does segregation mean?
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Blacks and whites couldn't ride buses or trains together and they couldn't go to the same schools.
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What are two examples of segregation?
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They charged her more money because she was black.
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What happened when Madam tried to go to a movie theatre?
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She sued the theatre.
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What did Madam do when the theatre charged her more money?
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She built the Walker building
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What did she buid after she sued the theatre?
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A block-long business center in downtown Indianapolis.
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What was the Walker building?
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A new movie theatre where blacks and whites could sit together.
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What did the Walker building have inside?
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She believed that black people needed to start more businesses in their own neighborhoods because then there would be more jobs for African Americans.
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What did Madam Walker believe needed to happen?
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In 1913, A'Lelia moved to Harlem, New York City.
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Where did A'Lelia move to and when?
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She wanted her mother to move her business there because Harlem was becoming the center of black life.
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What did A'Lelia want her mother to do?
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In 1916, Madam Walker moved to New York City.
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When did Madam agree to move to New York?
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No
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Did she move the walked Factory to New York?
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F.B. Ranson and Alice Kelly
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Who did Madam leave in charge of the Walker Factory in New York City?
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Madam Walker, A'Lelia, and Alice Kelly.
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Who knew Madam Walker's secret formula?
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She had poor health and was warned by doctors to slow down but she didn't.
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Why did Madam walker die?
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Sarah Breedlove Walker
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Madam C.J. Walker's was also known by what name?
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May 25, 1919
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When did Madam die?
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51 years old
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How old was Madam when she died?
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To help struggling black authors, artists, and musicians in the 1920.
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How did A'Lelian use her great wealth?
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46 years old
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How old was A'Lelia when she died?
