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National Inventor’s Day: Marjorie S. Joyner

Among the first African American women to receive a patent, inventor Marjorie Stewart Joyner had an influential career as a teacher and activist.

Born in 1896 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Marjorie Stewart moved to Chicago in 1912. Four years later, she was the first African American to graduate from the A. B. Moler Beauty School and went on to open her own salon. Joyner continued her cosmetology education, eventually meeting and taking a class taught by hair care mogul Madame C. J. Walker.

When Joyner met Madame C. J. Walker, proprietor of the Walker Manufacturing Company, Walker employed thousands of Black women and had the largest African American-owned company in the United States in 1917. Joyner was a teacher for and eventually became the national supervisor for Madame Walker Beauty Schools.

While making a pot roast, Joyner was inspired to use her pot roast rods as rollers, creating a device that applied multiple rods to the hair at once, greatly reducing the time needed to create curls

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A revolution in the beauty industry occurred during the early 1920s when a group of female African American inventors developed products and processes with black women’s particular needs in mind. The aim was to help them to feel good about their looks and begin to improve their societal status in the United States and around the world.

Marjorie Stewart Joyner was one such woman. A granddaughter of a slave and a white slave-owner, she was born on October 24, 1896 in Monterey, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains area of the state. She moved to Chicago in 1912, and shortly thereafter, she began studying cosmetology. In 1916, she became the first African American graduate of Chicago's A.B. Molar Beauty School. That year, at the age of 20, she married podiatrist Robert E. Joyner and opened her salon.

In Chicago, Joyner met another well-known and influential beautician and businesswoman, Madam C.J. Walker, who had invented the Walker Hair Care System and opened beauty schools around the country. Walker died in 1919, and a year later, Joyner joined Madame C.J.

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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 to Ohio, then after her parent’s divorce, she joined her mother in Chicago in 1912. Four years later, she became the first African American to graduate from the A. B. Molar Beauty School (also spelled A.B. Moler).

Like most beauty culture schools at the time, her coursework at A.B. Molar consisted of a few weeks of classes and very little hands-on training. The training she did complete was on white women’s hair. Later in her career this became an asset, and she thought it was important that stylists could do all types of hair.

After graduation, she married Robert Joyner and opened a salon. While doing her mother-in-law’s hair, she realized she lacked the necessary skills to style black hair. At her mother-in-law’s enco