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Answer #2: Madam C. J. Walker did not invent the straightening comb. This is a myth. She developed a line of hair care products for African American women during the early 1900s and was a pioneer of the modern hair care and cosmetics industries along with Annie Malone, her primary competitor, as well as her contemporaries, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden.
Answer #1: Madame C.J. Walker is famous for inventing some hair products but most known for inventing the hot comb.
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madam cj walker contributed to science by making makeup and hair products for black woman
Her work with hair care involved a lot of work with chemistry. Obviously she needed to know which chemicals made hair grow or made it curly or made it straight etc.
In the early 1900's Madam C.J. Walker created a temporary method of hair relaxing it wasn't done by using chemicals, it was done by pressing the hair.
Pressing the hair was done by applying petroleum jelly to the hair and then it was straighten by applying a metal hot comb through it.
The hot comb was placed on a stove, nowadays you can purchase this set that comes with a hot comb and a mini stove used by beauticians today.
It was then tested with tissue paper for the proper temperature, if it was to hot the tissue turned brown. You know not to apply it to the hair until the hot comb cools down.
You ran the hot comb through the hair by parting the hair in sections starting from the nape and working your way up.
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What problems did madam cj walker face?
Madam C. J. walker started losing her hair and use almost every hair product.
What is madame c j walkers address?
Madam Walker has two National Historic Landmarks: The Madam Walker Theatre Center at 617 Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis, IN and Villa Lewaro, the mansion she built on Broadway in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY in Westchester County.
What clubs were Madam CJ walker in?
Madam C. J. Walker was a member of the National Association of Colored Women, the Mite Missionary Society of St. Paul AME Church of St. Louis and the Mite Missionary Society of Shorter AME Church in Denver. She served on the executive committee of the New York chapter of the NAACP and on the board of the Music Settlement Foundation in New York. Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
Who was Madam C. J. Walker?
Madam C. J. Walker had one sister, named Louvenia Breedlove Powell. Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
How old was Madam C. J. Walker at death?
Madam C. J. Walker died on May 25, 1919 at the age of 51.
When was Madam C. J. Walker born?
Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867.
Madam C J Walker Answer and Questions?
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First black female to create and market black hair product?
Madam C. J. Walker
Who was madam c j walker sister?
Madam C. J. Walker had one sister, named Louvenia Breedlove Powell. Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
Is Maggie Lena Walker related to Madam C J Walker?
no
Where is Madam C J Walker today?
Madam C. J .Walker is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York. Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles Rite Now Madam C.J Walker Is Laying Peacefully In Her Grave She Is Thinking Of All Of U Why Shes There Just Know that
Madam cj walker real name?
Madam C J Walker's real name is Sarah BreedLove.
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When was madam c j walker's father born?
1245
How did madam c j walker get her middle initials?
Charles Joseph Walker was Sarah Breedlove's (aka Madam Walker) third husband. When she married him, she used his initials in her name. Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
