What were the jobs that Madam C.J. Walker did?

i am doing a biography about her and i need a resume about her and her life like a time line and a resume

What were the jobs that Madam C.J. Walker did?
In 'America's Women' it says:


Walker was the daughter of sharecroppers, the first child in the family to have been born free. She was orphaned at age seven and worked as a laundress in Louisiana when she was still a child, trudging across town bearing bundles of clothes and standing for hours with her swollen hands immersed in hot water and lye or wrestling with irons that had to be heated in the hearth. She married young, had a daughter at seventeen,a nd was widowed. She moved to St.Louis and joined a church whose congregation included many of the city's black clubwomen,. It was under the influence of these helpful laides that Sarah began to learn middle-class speech and manners while she sent her daughter, Lelia to college with the money she made over the laundry club. Meanwhile, she was horrified to discover her hair was starting to fall out. It may have been stress, but hair loss was a common problem for women at that time, possibly because of mercury poisoning from patent medicines. Many of the victims were poor women who had low-protein diets and rarely washed their hair. Scalp diseases were rampant, na dpores that became blocked by dirt were a breeding ground for dandruff, ezema, and fungus. Sarah, who was soon to take the name of her third husband, C.J. Walker, develioped a lotion that mad her hair grow back in. She always claimed it was revealed to her by an African ancestor in a dream. The result was actually not much more than a good shampoo, but when used regularly, along with scalp massages and perhaps improved diet, it generally restored lost hair and caused it go grow more thickly.





Walker's success had to do with her energy and her talent for promotion. She inspired her audience not only with the story of her recovered beauty, but with her vision of a future for black women that went beyond washing clothes and cleaning houses. Women signed up to learn the Walker hair care techniques, to sell the products, and to open Madame c.J. Walker beauty parlors. She traveled endlessly, at first in the hated segregated railroad cars and later, as her business began to prosper, in her own touring car. When she moved to New York, she and her daughter were as well known for their benevolence as for their expensive lifestyles. During World WAr I, Walker was a continual subscriber to war bond drives, determined that Harlem would not be outstripped by other neighbourhoods when it came to patriotism. Her town house and hair salon on 136th Street in Harlme were as elegant as anything on Fifth Avenue, and her estate on the Hudson, in a neighbourhood where the Rockefellers and other magnates had their mansions, was built on her commission by a black architect. "I had a dream, and that dream begot other dreams until I am now surrounded by all my dreams come true." she said shortly before she died.
Reply:NAME: Madam C.J. Walker (birth name Sarah Breedlove)





DATE OF BIRTH: December 23, 1867





PLACE OF BIRTH: Delta, Louisiana





DATE OF DEATH: May 25, 1919





PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York





Second link has a scrolling timeline: put your cursor over the date or picture to get info:





Walker, Madame C. J.


Madam C. J. Walker (December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919) was an inventor, businesswoman and self-made millionaire. Sarah Breedlove McWilliams C. J. Walker was an African-American who developed many beauty and hair care products that were extremely popular. Madam Walker started her cosmetics business in 1905. Her first product was a scalp treatment that used petrolatum and sulphur. She added Madam to her name and began selling her new "Walker System" door-to-door. Walker soon added new cosmetic products to her line. The products were very successful and she soon had many saleswomen, called "Walker Agents," who sold her products door to door and to beauty salons.
Reply:this site has a lovely timeline front and center of the page





http://www.madamcjwalker.com/





but here are some highlights





FAMILY BACKGROUND: Sarah Breedlove, who later became known as Madam C. J. Walker, was born into a former-slave family to parents Owen and Minerva Breedlove. She had one older sister, Louvenia and brothers Alexander, James, Solomon and Owen, Jr. Her parents had been slaves on Robert W. Burney's Madison Parish farm which was a battle-staging area during the Civil War for General Ulysses S. Grant and his Union troops. She became an orphan at age 7 when her parents died during an epidemic of yellow fever. To escape the epidemic and failing cotton crops, the ten year old Sarah and her sister moved across the river to Vicksburg in 1878 and obtained work as maids. At the age of fourteen, Sarah married Moses McWilliams to escape her sister's abusive husband. They had a daughter, Lelia (later known as A'Lelia Walker, a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance). When Lelia was only two years old, McWilliams died. Sarah's second marriage to John Davis August 11, 1894 failed and ended sometime in 1903. She married for the third time in January, 1906 to newspaper sales agent, Charles Joseph Walker; they divorced around 1910.








ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Madam Walker was an entrepreneur who built her empire developing hair products for black women. She claims to have built her company on an actual dream where a large black man appeared to her and gave her a formula for curing baldness. When confronted with the idea that she was trying to conform black women's hair to that of whites, she stressed that her products were simply an attempt to help black women take proper care of their hair and promote its growth.