question: Nobia A. Franklin, was a Texas beautician and entrepreneur, her business, geared towards beauty products for black women, was ranked third in the country behind Madam C. J. Walker, an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist, passed away on which date?
answer: May 25, 1919
context: Title: Villa Lewaro
  Passage: Villa Lewaro, formerly known as the Anne E. Poth Home, is a 34-room 20000 sqft mansion located at Fargo Lane and North Broadway (US 9) in Irvington, New York.  It was the home of Madam C. J. Walker from 1918 to 1919.  Walker was the first American female and first African-American female self-made millionaire, and "the world's most successful female entrepreneur of her time."  The mansion is an Italianate villa house designed for Walker by Vertner Tandy, the first African-American architect registered in New York, and has been considered to be one of his greatest works.  It was constructed during 1916–1918 at an estimated cost of $250,000, and was furnished lavishly.  The name Villa Lewaro was coined by a distinguished visitor, Enrico Caruso, from the first two letters of each word in Lelia Walker Robinson, the name of Walker's daughter, who later went by the name of A'Lelia Walker.
  Title: Freeform (TV channel)
  Passage: Freeform (formerly ABC Family and originally CBN Satellite Service) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company, a unit of Disney Enterprises, Inc..  The channel primarily consists of TV series and films geared towards teenagers and young adults – with some programming skewing towards young women – in the 14-34 age range, a target demographic designated by the channel as "becomers" while some programming featured on Freeform (primarily consisting of movies) is secondarily geared towards a family audience.  Its programming includes contemporary off-network syndicated reruns and original series, feature films and made-for-TV original movies.
  Title: Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company
  Passage: The Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Co., The Walker Company) was a cosmetics manufacturer incorporated in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1910 by Madam C. J. Walker.  It was best known for its African-American cosmetics and hair care products, and considered the most widely known and financially successful African-American owned business of the early twentieth century.  The Walker Company ceased operations in July 1981.
  Title: Madam C. J. Walker
  Passage: Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist.  Eulogized as the first female self-made millionaire in America, she became one of the wealthiest African American women in the country, "the world's most successful female entrepreneur of her time," and one of the most successful African-American business owners ever.
  Title: Nobia A. Franklin
  Passage: Nobia A. Franklin (1892-1934, also known as Madame N.A. Franklin) was a Texas beautician and entrepreneur.  Her business, geared towards beauty products for black women, was ranked third in the country behind Annie M. Turnbo-Malone's company and Madame C.J. Walker's "beauty empire."  Her cosmetics were "meant to flatter, rather than lighten darker skin tones."  Franklin's beauty products were never patented.
  Title: National Congress of Black Women
  Passage: The National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the educational, political, economic and cultural development of African American women and their families.  NCBW also serves as a non-partisan voice and instrument on issues pertaining to the appointment of African American women at all levels of government, and to increase African American women's participation in the educational, political, economic and social arenas.  Currently, NCBW provides opportunities for women for leadership and decision-making positions in government, non-profit organizations and the private sector.
  Title: Black Girl Magic
  Passage: Black Girl Magic (#BlackGirlMagic) is a concept and movement that was popularized by CaShawn Thompson in 2013.  The concept was born as a way to "celebrate the beauty, power and resilience of black women," as described by Julee Wilson from The Huffington Post, and to congratulate black women on their accomplishments.  Referring to a speech made by Michelle Obama at the Black Girls Rock Awards, Thompson explains that black women around the world persevering despite the adversity inspired her to spread the concept of Black Girl Magic.  With these women in mind, Thompson created the social media hashtag, clothing campaign, and rallying cry "Black Girl Magic", in the hopes of counteracting negativity society places on black women.
  Title: Where We At
  Passage: "Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. (WWA) was a collective of black women artists affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.  It included artists such as Dindga McCannon, Kay Brown, Faith Ringgold, Jerri Crooks, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), and Vivian E. Browne.  It was formed in the spring of 1971, in the wake of an exhibition of the same name organized by 14 black women artists at the Acts of Art Gallery in Greenwich Village.  Themes such as the unity of the Black family, Black male-female relationships, contemporary social conditions, and African traditions were central to the work of the WWA artists.  The group was intended to serve as a source of empowerment for African-American women, providing a means for them to control their self-representation and to explore issues of Black women’s sensibility and aesthetics.  Like AfriCobra, a Chicago-based Black Arts group, the WWA was active in fostering art within the African-American community and using it as a tool of awareness and liberation.  The group organized workshops in schools, hospitals, and cultural centers, as well as art classes for youth in their communities.
  Title: Marjorie Joyner
  Passage: Marjorie Stewart Joyner (October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman.  She was born in 1896, in Monterey, Virginia.  In 1912, she moved to Chicago and began studying cosmetology.  She graduated A.B. Molar Beauty School in Chicago in 1916, the first African American to achieve this.  There she met Madam C. J. Walker, an African American beauty entrepreneur, and the owner of a cosmetic empire.  Always a lover of women's cosmetics, Joyner went to work for her and oversaw 200 of Madame Walker's beauty schools as the national adviser.  A major role was sending Walker's hair stylists door-to-door, dressed in black skirts and white blouses with black satchels containing a range of beauty products that were applied in the customer's house.  Joyner taught some 15,000 stylists over her fifty-year career.  She was also a leader in developing new products, such as her permanent wave machine.  She helped write the first cosmetology laws for the state of Illinois, and founded a sorority and fraternity, Alpha Chi Pi Omega on October 27, 1945 as well as a national association for black beauticians.  Joyner was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, and helped found the National Council of Negro Women.  She was an advisor to the Democratic National Committee in the 1940s, and advised several New Deal agencies trying to reach out to black women.  Joyner was highly visible in the Chicago black community, as head of the "Chicago Defender" Charity network, and fundraiser for various schools.  In 1987 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington opened an exhibit featuring Joyner's permanent wave machine and a replica of her original salon.
  Title: Alpha Suffrage Club
  Passage: The Alpha Suffrage Club is believed to be the first black women's suffrage association in the United States.  It began in Chicago, Illinois in 1913 under the initiative of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and her white colleague, Belle Squire.  The Club aimed to reinforce African American involvement in the struggle for women's suffrage, due to African American women being unable to be involved in the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA).  The Alpha Suffrage Club was established to partially give a voice to women who could not represent their selves individually, and worked specifically towards giving a voice to black women, as well as to “politicize” black women into the government system.  In 1916, the club had nearly 200 members, including well-known female suffrage activists Mary E. Jackson, Viola Hill, Vera Wesley Green, and Sadie L. Adams.  Within the next three years the group burgeoned into the thousands.  The women were motivated by and sought to put an end to the countless lynchings of African Americans.
citations: Madam C. J. Walker Nobia A. Franklin