Here's one i wrote a few years ago in like 7th grade
Madam C.J Walker was an American woman in the 1800s, and her childhood wasn’t the greatest. She was born on December 23rd, 1867, while her birth name was Sarah Breedlove. She had five other siblings, including a sister and four brothers. As a young black child, she was in poor condition. Black people back then were forced to be slaves. Her older siblings were taken away or enslaved by a fellow named Robert W. Burney on his Madison Parish plantation. Sarah was freed first out of her siblings when the Emancipation Proclamation was, endorsed. Her mother and father died, so she was orphaned at the age of seven. She then was moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi. She worked as a domestic servant and barely had any freedom.
Sarah began her adulthood. Sarah remarried three times. She never stayed with the person she married. Sarah gave birth to a daughter named A'Lelia Walker. She started her career by becoming a laundress. Even though she paid a few cents, she was determined to raise enough money to get her daughter proper schooling. In her time, it was common for black women to have severe dandruff. There were other problems too. She was one of those black women. She had baldness and skin disorders due to things she used to wash clothing and herself. Her hair loss was also because of unsatisfactory dieting, illnesses, and caring for hair, and showering too little. Since her hair was in bad shape, she went to her brothers, who were barbers. She learned about hair-care from them. After learning from them, she went to sell hair products for a company named Poro Company. That company was owned by an African American woman named Annie Malone. The products didn’t make any sales, mainly because the black community was neglected.
While she worked for Annie Malone, she came up with her own business ideas for herself. With that information, she decided to start her own production line. A year later, she and her daughter moved to Denver, Colorado, where Madam Walker continued selling products of Annie Malone but started her own hair-care business. A shuffle between Malone and Walker broke out when Malone accused Walker of stealing her secret formula for hair. After she married her former husband, Charles Walker, her name was changed from Sarah Breedlove to Madam C.J Walker. She promoted herself as a hairdresser and a retailer of cosmetic creams. Walker sold her products door to door, teaching black women how to groom and style their hair properly. While they were married, Charles Walker helped Madam Walker grow her business. In 1906, They left their daughter in charge of a mail-order operation. They chose to then move throughout eastern and southern United States to expand their new business. In 1908, Walker and her husband went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There they set up a beauty parlor and Leila College for hair culturists. In 1907, Walker shut down her business in Denver. In 1910, Walker opened another business this time in Indianapolis. Her daughter A’Lelia persuaded her to start a beauty salon in New York’s growing Harlem neighborhood. In the end, it became a place for African American culture.
