About Marjorie Joyner
Marjorie Joyner 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. In addition to her career in hair care, Joyner was highly visible in the African-American community in Chicago, once serving as head of the Chicago Defender Charity network, helping organize the Bud Billiken Day Parade and fundraiser for various schools. In 1973, at the age of 77, Joyner was awarded a bachelor's degree in psychology from Bethune-Cookman College. Joyner helped write the first cosmetology laws for the state of Illinois in the early 1940s.
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