Lemmons is skilled at depicting the Seniors 2020 The One Where They Were Quarantined Tee Shirt besides I will buy this lives of extraordinary African-American women. Her 2019 film, Harriet, brought humanity and humor to the story of Harriet Tubman’s rise to abolitionist hero and garnered Cynthia Erivo an Oscar nomination. Walker’s trajectory was equally inspiring; born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana, in 1867, she was orphaned at 7 and spent much of her childhood as a domestic servant. Married at the age of 14, she sought to build a better life for herself and daughter A’Lelia when she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and began to learn about hair care from her barber brothers. In 1904, while working for Annie Malone, an Illinois businesswoman who manufactured a line of grooming products, Walker began to experiment with her own products including shampoos and pomades. She soon headed door to door selling her wares and recruiting others to join her on the path to entrepreneurship. In a time where the opportunities offered to black women were few and far between, Walker found ways to uplift the economic status of entire communities. “She was not just an inspiration, she empowered women to have businesses in a time when they were told that all they would be able to do was wash white people’s clothes,” says Lemmons. “Madam C.J. comes along and says ‘no, you don’t have to clean houses, I’m going to make you feel beautiful and good about yourself, and I’m going to pay you better.’ That took tremendous foresight on her part, and it’s a reminder that we as black women have always had to think outside the box.”
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