A: The producers and script writers have said that Addie Monroe is a composite for several characters. Inevitably many viewers will draw comparisons between her and Annie Pope Turnbo Malone. While Walker and Malone were business competitors in real life, their conflict had nothing to do with skin color. The theme of "colorism" was introduced by the script writers to intensify the drama.
Madam Walker worked as a sales agent for the real-life Annie Turnbo Pope Malone, who founded the Poro Company around 1902. After moving to Denver in July 1905, Madam Walker continued selling Poro products for about eight months. In April 1906 Walker placed her first advertisement in the Denver Statesman to promote her own product line. While the two women were fierce competitors, both were successful as pioneers of the modern hair care industry, as founders of companies that provided jobs for thousands of women and as philanthropists. The rivalry between Madam Walker and "Addie Monroe" - including the direct confrontations, arguments and fantasy boxing match -- is exaggerated and fictionalized in the series. Annie Malone did not conspire with John Robinson, Madam Walker's son-in-law, and did not lure a group of Walker agents.
Madam Walker worked as a sales agent for the real-life Annie Turnbo Pope Malone, who founded the Poro Company around 1902. After moving to Denver in July 1905, Madam Walker continued selling Poro products for about eight months. In April 1906 Walker placed her first advertisement in the Denver Statesman to promote her own product line. While the two women were fierce competitors, both were successful as pioneers of the modern hair care industry, as founders of companies that provided jobs for thousands of women and as philanthropists. The rivalry between Madam Walker and "Addie Monroe" - including the direct confrontations, arguments and fantasy boxing match -- is exaggerated and fictionalized in the series. Annie Malone did not conspire with John Robinson, Madam Walker's son-in-law, and did not lure a group of Walker agents.
A: Sarah Breedlove married Moses McWilliams when she was 14. Her daughter, Lelia (later known as A'Lelia Walker), was born in June 1885 when she was 17, so she was pregnant with Lelia when she was 16.
A: No, Annie Turnbo Pope Malone did not move to Indianapolis. She remained in St. Louis, married Aaron Malone in 1914 and built a large factory and beauty school in 1917. After a bitter divorce from Aaron Malone in 1927, she moved her company to Chicago.
A: No, Madam Walker's house in Indianapolis did not catch on fire. John Robinson and her daughter, Lelia, married in 1909 and were separated in 1910 soon after Madam Walker moved to Indianapolis. Lelia and John Robinson never moved to Indianapolis and he was never involved with the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.
Cleophus Walker, Charles Joseph Walker's father, was created for the series. C. J. Walker's father's name is unknown and there is no evidence that he was alive during the years after C. J. Walker and Sarah met.
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