Whereas Turnbo took her product’s name from an African word, Madame C.J. claimed ... hair-straightening styling tool in their catalogs in the 1880s. But Walker did improve the hot comb with ...

“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Madam C.J. Walker became the first black ... She said there’s a lot of misconceptions. Madam Walker did not invent the hot comb so we have to get rid of that myth.” ...

WHEN aspiring entrepreneurs asked Madam C.J. Walker how she ... sisters to be attractive. While Walker and her hair culturists popularized the use of the metal straightening comb, she never ...

hair-care maven Madam C.J. Walker. Bundles wanted to wear her mane in a big afro, yet everywhere she turned people reminded her that she was a descendant of the woman who invented the hot comb.

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What Sarah Breedlove, a.k.a. Madam C.J. Walker, did was to invent (or possibly steal) a sulfur-based hair-straightening formula for black women and also a steel hot-comb to be used in conjunction ...

The woman credited with creating the hot comb was born Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker but donned her trademark Madame C.J. moniker. In all actuality she did not invent the hair-straightening ...

And when the little one she brings forward is busy picking cotton, she'll look for another to take "The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker ... invented the straightening comb," Chapman said.

But on the inside, I had the opportunity to go beyond what the internet and some history books tell us about Madam C.J. Walker when ... women in the 60’s stop straightening their hair and ...