American Icons #4 conti.

*I hope that when someone reads my artist statement they see a difference, they will want to talk to me and ask questions about what they read and how they really feel.
*When I was sitting in front of my computer, I was thinking how I could put this together because I knew it would be hard trying to relate to someone so inspirational and so devotional. So I decided to make it a biograpghy of her then one of me, then relate the two together. And I think it's a very unique way of putting things together and it will be different then what other peopleare doing.


My first paragraph:
Madam CJ Walker: born into a world of hate, racism and differences. Shyana Nicole Brown: born into a world of hate, racism and differences.
Two different people but both with the same dream: to be successful and change the world.
Madam CJ Walker was born as Sarah Breedlove in December 23, 1867. She became an orphan when her parents died when she was only seven. To escape an epidemic of the yellow fever, which caused the death of her parents ,and having to deal with an abusive brother-in-law, she married her first husband, Moses McWilliams at the age 14. She later became pregnant with her first child Leila( later known as A'Leila Walker.) When Leila was two years old her father Moses died. Which made Madam CJ marry again to John Davis in 1894. That marriage ended in 1910 and then she married once again to Charles Joseph Walker. Madam CJ was a strong and devotional woman. She moved to Denver, Colorado were she started to realize a small baldness problem, which she knew other African-American women were going through because of the lack of products made for black women, because of racism. She had started to work on a solution not just for her but for all African-American women who faced this problem. In 1906 her and her husband toured the country promoting their products and their training sales agents. From 1908 through 1910 Charles and CJ operated a beauty training school, the Leila College for Walker Hair Culturists. She was soon known as the first African-American millionaire. She became inspirational to many black women because of her wealth and success, and she made it possible for all those who couldn't walk on their own two feet. After the bloody East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917, she devoted herself to make lynching a federal crime. In 1918 she was the keynote speaker at many NAACP events helping raise funds for the anti-lynching movement across the Midwest and East. She also encouraged other African-American to support black veterans in WWI. She helped support schools, organizations, individuals, orphanages, retirement homes, YWCA's and YMCA's.




My last paragraph:
Shyana is still in the process of growing up and, as she gets older, looks around the world to see African-American women that came from nothing to becoming someone successful. She wants to be as strong as her mother was and as wealthy and devoted as Madam CJ Walker was. She wants to pass her lessons learned down to children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She will be the first child of Ethel graduating from high school and the first to college. That is her success. Just knowing that what she is doing, going to be the first to graduate, is of great importance. With the help and love of the strong people around her she will make it and become someone that people look up to like Madam CJ Walker.