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Self Made with Elle Johnson and Janine Sherman Barrois
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Aug 4, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Born just two years after the abolition of slavery, Madam C.J. Walker built a business empire by marketing her homemade haircare formula to the black community. Along the way, she became the United States’ first female self-made millionaire.
Our guests, Janine Sherman Barrois and Elle Johnson, helped bring Walker’s story to millions of viewers in the Netflix limited series, “Self Made.” They discuss Walker’s barrier-busting entrepreneurship, as well as her decision to use her own portrait as part of her brand.
See her trademark photograph here: https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2008.20
Our guests, Janine Sherman Barrois and Elle Johnson, helped bring Walker’s story to millions of viewers in the Netflix limited series, “Self Made.” They discuss Walker’s barrier-busting entrepreneurship, as well as her decision to use her own portrait as part of her brand.
See her trademark photograph here: https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2008.20
Released:
Aug 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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