Do you know who Marjorie Joyner is ? She was an American business woman. She was the first African American women to graduate from A.B. Molar Beauty School in Chicago. By the age of 20 she opened up her own salon where she met Madame C.J. Walker. In 1939 she invented the Permanent wave design, a table that could be used to curl and straighten hair. Her inspiration for this design came from a pot roast cooking with paper pins to quicken the preparation time. Her method allowed hairstyles to last fro several days. She soon got a patent for this design and became the first African American women to receive a patent. Joyner's design was popular in both African American and White women salons. In 1967, she co-founded the United Beauty School Owners and Teacher's Association. Throughout her fifty-year career she taught 15,000 stylist and a became a leader in developing new products.
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