Fast Facts

Generous with family and employees, Ms. Malone educated many of her nieces and nephews and bought homes for her brothers and sisters. She awarded employees with lavish gifts for attendance, punctuality, service anniversaries, and as rewards for investing in real estate. Below is a list of a few of her many accomplishments:

· 1900 - Invented ‘Wonderful Hair Grower’
· 1906 - Copyrighted the trade-name Poro
· 1918 - Opened the doors to the 3rd physical Poro College location in St. Louis, employing 175 people
· 1919 - Donated $10,000 to build St. Louis Colored Children’s Home
· 1920s - Donated $25,000 to Howard University Medical School
· 1920s -Donated $25,000 to Tuskegee Institute
· 1920 - Donated $25,000 to the Pine Street YMCA 1922 -
· 1922 - Annie Malone received an Honorary Masters degree from Kittrell College in N.C.
· 1922 - Manufactured Poro toilet preparations
· 1924 - Trip to Europe to study beauty culture methods
· 1924 - One of the first Black female millionaires, worth over $14 million
· 1927 - 75,000 Poro agents around the world whose lives changed their communities
· 1927 - Established schools in 32 U.S. cities
. 1931 - Annie Malone received an Honorary Masters degree from Howard University
· 1944 - National Beauty Culturists League declared Malone the Pioneer of the Hair Industry
· 1946 - St. Louis Colored Orphan's Home was renamed Annie Malone Children’s Home
· Supported two college students at every Black land-grant college in the US