Walk through Harlem

The dentist office of Bessie and Harps was on 135th street. The spot was so named because members of the emerging black community in Harlem during the mid-1910s used it as a pulpit to sound off on the issues that affected African Americans. Walker's home at 108 West 136th Street served as the Harlem headquarters for her beauty-products business in the 1910s. Walker was an uneducated orphan, who developed her own hair product for women. She was the first woman to ever make a million dollars, with how much success her product received, I'm sure Bessie and Sadie tried this product out.