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As part of the evaluation of an article, I chose to evaluate Madam C. J. Walker. Below are the comments I left under the talk page for that article.

Suggestions to Improve Article's Relevance[ edit]
This article can be improved by adding a description of the times Madam C.J. Walker was living in. This brings context into her story and elevate her impact into today's society. She was borned four years after the Emancipation Declaration by President Abraham Lincoln and strived to break the standard society imposed into African American Women at the times which could be consider the Victorian Era.

As shared in the following source: Victorian Ideals: The Influence of Society’s Ideals on Victorian Relationships, Felicia Appell

"Women in the Victorian society had one main role in life, which was to marry and take part in their husbands’ interests and business. Before marriage, they would learn housewife skills such as weaving, cooking, washing, and cleaning, unless they were of a wealthy family. If they were wealthy, they did not always learn these tasks because their maids primarily took care of the household chores. Typically, women were also not allowed to be educated or gain knowledge outside of the home because it was a man’s world.One critic, Richard D. Altick states, “a woman was inferior to a man in all ways except the unique one that counted most [to a man]: her femininity. Her place was in the home, on a veritable pedestal if one could be afforded, and emphatically not in the world of affairs” (Altick 54). Patriarchal society did not allow women to have the same privileges as men." Mpola017 (talk) 20:47, 12 April 2020 (UTC)