Summary: Mme. Walker also offered black women a rare opportunity to get ahead. Graduates of the Walker College of Hair Culture were trained to style hair, sell Walker products, even open their own beauty salons. "I am not satisfied in making money for myself," she told a 1914 convention of the National Negro Business League. "I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race." By 1916, Walker employed 20,000 agents throughout the country. Women who had toiled for pennies at arduous jobs were earning more money than ever before. "You have opened up a trade for hundreds of colored women to make an honest and profitable living," a Walker College graduate wrote Mme. Walker. "They make as much in one week as a month's salary would bring from any other position they could secure." Now our Black Beauty Products are defined by chinese stores.
