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Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent hair-wave machine. [2]
Feb 11, 2020 · Marjorie S. Joyner’s patent is on display as the National Archives Museum’s Featured Document celebrating National Women’s Inventors Month through March 18. Today’s post comes from Jen Johnson, a curator at the National Archives at Kansas City. Born in 1896 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Marjorie Stewart and her family moved ...
Sep 12, 2014 · Marjorie Stewart Joyner’s grandparents, parents and other family in Virginia, circa 1898: Box 40: 002: George Emanuel Stewart (father of MS Joyner), c.1915: Box 40: 003: Margaret Stewart Morgan (MS Joyner’s aunt), circa 1920: Box 40: 004: Odie Fouche (as baby), circa 1922. Photo by Worthington, Chicago: Box 40: 005
Feb 5, 2023 · Marjorie Stewart Joyner, 91, works with curlers in her hair at her home in Chicago on Jan. 22, 1987. ... Her parents divorced when she was young and the family moved frequently before landing in ...
Mar 22, 2023 · That same year, she met and married Dr. Robert A. Joyner and opened a salon near the corner of State and Garfield in the heart of Chicago’s south side African American community. At just 20 years old, Marjorie Stewart Joyner had come a long way from the mountains of Virginia.
Joyner was born Marjorie Stewart in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Monterey, Virginia, on October 24, 1896, the granddaughter of slaves. She grew up in poverty — only four of the thirteen Stewart children survived infancy — but her father was a schoolteacher who had worked with the famous African American educator Booker T. Washington and ...
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Marjorie Stewart was the granddaughter of slaves, and was born to George Emmanuel Stewart, a schoolteacher, and Annie Daugherty Stewart, on October 24, 1896 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The closest town, Monterey, was a nine mile walk over a mountain. Her family took part in the Great Migration, first moving to Dayton, Ohio.
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