Golden Beauty Boss - The Story of Madame Sara Spencer-Washington and the Apex Empire

Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks

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The Story of Madame Sara Spencer Washington and the Apex Empire Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks has created the first biography of the life of Madame Sara Spencer Washington, founder of Apex News and...

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The Story of Madame Sara Spencer Washington and the Apex Empire

Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks has created the first biography of the life of Madame Sara Spencer Washington, founder of Apex News and Hair Company, once located in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  In 1911, a Virginia entrepreneur moved to Atlantic City and started selling cosmetics door-to-door and styling hair in her basement, growing her business into an empire. Sara opened a manufacturing company creating hundreds of products and hired 45,000 sales agents all over the world.  Madame Sara Spencer Washington also opened beauty schools in twelve states. Sara was honored at the New York World’s Trade Fair in 1939 as one of the “Most Distinguished Businesswomen.”  She continued to expand Apex internationally, doing business in Haiti and South Africa. Madame Washington acquired millionaire status in the 1940s, taking on roles as a civic leader, and philanthropist.  Cheryl takes you through the history of Apex from its inception until its dissolution after Sara’s death in 1953, sharing details of her life as she faced discrimination while earning the respect of all races along her journey.

 

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:

Cheryl Woodruff Brooks brings the amazing story of entrepreneur, educator, and activist Sara Spencer Washington to life with her riveting narrative in Golden Beauty Boss. The compelling book is more than a biography of a plucky figure whose vision and determination in the face of many challenges forged a colossal black manufacturing company, a global enterprise, indeed an Apex Empire that included a huge network of beauty schools and services providing opportunities for African Americans that changed the face of the political economy of America. It is a saga that reminds us of the important social and cultural contexts of African American business--and indeed the changing American concept of beauty.

-- Simon J. Bronner, Dean of the College of General Studies and professor of social sciences and business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.


Author: Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Page Count: 116
Trim Size: 5 x 8
Publish Date: February 6, 2020
Imprint: Sunbury Press
Genre: History

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic
HISTORY / African American
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

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