Marjorie Joyner

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Marjorie Stewart Joyner (October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was born in 1896, in Monterey, Virginia. She was the granddaughter of a slave owner and a slave. In 1912, she moved to Chicago and began studying cosmetology. She graduated A.B. Molar Beauty School in Chicago in 1916, the first African American to achieve this. There she met Madam C. J. Walker, an African American beauty entrepreneur, ... more »

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''There is nothing a woman can't do. Men might think they do things all by themselves—but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them.''
Marjorie Joyner, U.S. inventor and beauty culture educator. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 13, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992). Said on April 25...

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