A.B. Molar (Moler) Beauty School / Beauty and Culture School

CTL-E-1347 · Business · other · Operating by 1916; later history not traced

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Chicago cosmetology school whose 1916 graduation of Marjorie Stewart Joyner broke its color line. A training institution in the Black women's beauty economy: the school supplied the credential that let Black women open independent salons.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-006; source research type(s): business.

Sources

Lemelson-MIT Center; National Inventors Hall of Fame 2023 fact sheet

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