![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Washington Post // Getty ImagesĪs her wealth grew, Walker became involved in philanthropy and activism. A’Lelia became a well-known patron of the arts during the Harlem Renaissance, and hosted at their home a famed cultural salon.Ī’Lelia Bundles with photos of her great-great-grandmother’s Hudson Valley villa. The family built lavish homes, including a Hudson Valley villa that is today a National Trust for Historic Preservation-designated National Treasure, and a Harlem home that is the only townhouse in Manhattan built by an African-American. Her daughter, A’Lelia Walker, joined her in running the business. She advertised in black newspapers that reached a national audience, helping to spread the word about her products, and built beauty schools to teach her “Walker agents” the art of hair styling care. Like Turnbo Malone before her, she trained other women to sell the product, helping other black women to earn incomes during the Jim Crow era, and opened her first factory in Indianapolis and 1910. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower.” She sold it door to door, before developing a mail-order business. Having remarried to salesman Charles Joseph Walker, she named her product “Madame C.J. Smith Collection/Gado // Getty Imagesīut with the help of a hair treatment recipe she described as coming to her in a dream, Breedlove’s hair returned. ![]()
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