4th Quarter Book Review

For this quarter I am reading a biography of Madam C.J Walker titled The Black Rose written Tananarive Due and Alex Haley. It contains 39 chapters and 375 pages. Madam C.J. Walker was one of America's first black female millionaires. Her biography discusses her life growing up in the southern state of Louisiana. She was born December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana. As a bashful child she did not imagine herself evolving from share-cropping and corn fields. By inventing a beauty company, and being a leading philanthropist in African American causes she change the view of a African American woman. author Alex Haley was fascinated by Madam C.J Walker's triumphant life and the era that she lived in that he wanted to write a book about her before his past on. Madam C.J Walker's government name was Sarah Breedlove. People called her Miss. Sarah. Throughout her life she was married at the age of fourteen to Moses McWilliams, at the age of eighteen she gave birth to her daughter named Lelia, and at the age twenty she was widowed. She discovered her name Madam C.J. Walker from her second husband Charles Joseph Walker. After dealing with hair loss, she prayed and dreamed of a formula that would repair African Americans hair and that is when she created a formula that enhance African Americans hair for many generations to come. After becoming a self-made millionaire and traveling all around the world, Madam C.J Walker died in 1919 at the age of 51 due to hypertension.The Black Rose is a wonderful novel and I recommend that everyone should read it. It is enlightening and inspirational. It shows that you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.