Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Marjorie was a woman who tried to solve African-american women's hair problems.
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HER LIFE
She was born on 1896 in Monterrey as the daughter of a teacher and a housewife, descendants of slaves.
Her parents got divorced and a few years later and she moved to Chicago.
Before she opened her beauty salon, she married Robert E. Joyner, a student of medicine.
STUDIES AND JOBS
There, she began working as a cleaner and as a waitress while she was in high school, which she could not finish.
Later , in an another school she graduated and was the first black person to graduate from that prodigious academy of cosmetics and beauty.
She opened a small beauty salon where she became famous for her ability with the "Marcel wave".
As straight hairstyle was difficult to do on black women, she decided to take lessons from a famous hairstylist for these women to release their complexes.
INVENTION
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In 1919 she started to work in famous beauty salon ”The Walker Company ” ,and after the death of the head of the salon, Joyner became the head of the company .
In 1926, she wanted to solve the problem of most African-American's to straighten their hair so she created a machine to make it permanent.
She registered her machine in 1928 but could not be considered the inventor because a German man had already had the idea.A few years after making black women happy,
she died in 1994 at the age of 98 in Chicago.
OUR PERSONAL OPINION
In our personal opinion, we think she was nice because she thought about helping black woman to overcome their complexes and feel better.
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