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Making Black America

Annie Malone's and CJ Walker's Beauty Empires

"Making Black America" explores how Annie Malone and CJ Walker built their beauty empires. Both women envisioned their businesses as more than money-making enterprises, and also operated as a vehicle to create economic opportunity for Black women and a home for culture and community.

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From Black Power to Black Twitter hour four reveals safe spaces created by Black America.
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Hour three uncovers vast social networks created by Black Americans to defeat Jim Crow.
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Hour two explores the nation within a nation built by Black Americans out of necessity.
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Hour one details how African Americans have created spaces for survival, pleasure and joy.
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