- Madame Walker was a St Louis washerwoman turned entrepreneur who in 1905 invented a method to soften and smooth black women's hair using hot combs and curlers and pomades - instead of a hot flat-iron.inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwalker.htm
- Home Timeline Exhibition For Teachers Resources Database Copyright Info Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove) (1867-1919) ...www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/cjwalker.html
- Alphabetical Listing Benjamin Banneker Andrew Beard Miriam Benjamin Henry Blair Sarah Boone C. B. Brooks Henry Brown George Washington Carver M. A. Cherry David Crosthwait George Crum Joseph Dickinson P. B. Downing Charles Drew T. Elkins H. Faulkner D. A. Fisher James Forten Sarah Goode George Grant Lloyd Hall J. Hawkins Jack Johnson W. Johnson Fred Jones Percy Julian Ernest Just Lewis Latimer ...www.blackinventor.com/pages/madamewalker.html
