See more of this title: Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
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From a bleak world of poverty and discrimination to unprecedented success as an influential businesswoman and philanthropist, Walker's story exemplifies the courage to dream and determination of a woman who wanted a better life for herself and her race. Full-color illustrations.

Born December 23, 1867, Sarah Breedlove Walker was the youngest and first free-born child of Minerva and Owen Breedlove of Delta, Louisiana. As sharecroppers, their lives were hard, but slavery had ended, and the Breedlove family was free. And if you were free, you could dream.

Vision of Beauty depicts Sarah Breedlove Walker's rise from a bleak world of poverty and discrimination to unprecedented success as an influential businesswoman and philanthropist. Orphaned at age seven, married and widowed by twenty, Sarah was a young mother struggling as a laundress when she began to lose her hair. Through tenacity and faith, she discovered her own cure, founding the phenomenally successful Mme. C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. Representing a woman's ability to achieve economic independence, Madam Walker offered a vision of freedom and dignity for her people, and has become a powerful role model for women and girls of all races and classes.