Madam C. J. Walker did not manufacture chemical perms. One of the first people to develop a perm for African Americans was Garrett Morgan, who also invented the gas mask and the traffic light. He founded the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company.
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Madam Walker did not make the straightening comb. It existed in the 1870s when she still was a child. She was born in 1867.
Yes she did. The book was called "My crappy life" you can buy it on amazon!
Answer #2: No, Madam C. J. Walker did not manufacture or invent the straightening comb. The first widely distributed metal hair care implements were designed by a Frenchman named Marcel Grateau, who is said to have created the Marcel Wave in the 1870s when Madam Walker was still a child named Sarah Breedlove. Hot combs were sold in Bloomingdales and Sears catalogues in the 1890s. Over time, several different inventors developed different designs for hot combs and other hair care devices. They continue to develop electric irons to this day. Madam Walker sold straightening combs to her agents but she purchased them from at least two different suppliers. She did not make them herself. Answer #1: Yes she did. Walter Simmons patented an improved design in 1920; a year after the death of Mme Walker.
Madam CJ Walker said " I got my start by giving myself a start." :) "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the south. From there I was promoted to the wash tub. 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." Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner 2001) "There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success and if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights." Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner 2001)