Guide to present yourself with purpose, pride, and promise.
This practical volume gathers guidance on appearance, character, and daily choices to help the Colored Girl Beautiful shape a confident future. It blends personal development with cultural insight to support growth at every stage.
The book covers topics from self‑care and education to relationships, motherhood, and spirituality. It invites readers to see the beauty in themselves, to value their history, and to apply thoughtful, steady effort in daily life.
Through concrete advice and examples, it emphasizes dignity, respect, and responsibility in personal conduct, dress, speech, and interactions with others. It promotes a balanced approach to faith, culture, and community as powerful forces for growth.
- Enhance personal presence with careful attention to appearance, health, voice, and mannered conduct.
- Explore self‑improvement through thought, education, and pride in heritage.
- Learn respectful behavior in family, friendship, and everyday encounters, especially for young women and men.
- Strengthen spirituality and moral living as daily, practical expression of faith.
Ideal for readers seeking practical, faith‑guided guidance on self‑respect, tradition, and personal development for Black young women and mothers.
Emma Azalia Smith Hackley was an African American singer and Denver political activist born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1867. Her parents, business owners Henry and Corilla Smith, moved to Detroit where she attended Washington Normal School, graduating in 1886. Smith, a child prodigy learned to play the piano at three and later took private voice, violin and French lessons. Emma Smith worked as an elementary school teacher for eighteen years. During that period she met and married Edwin Henry Hackley a Denver attorney and editor of the city’s black newspaper, the Denver Statesman. In 1900 Hackley received her music degree from Denver University. In 1905-1906 she studied voice in Paris with former Metropolitan Opera star Jean de Reszke. Hackley was active in black Denver’s civic and social life. She founded the Colored Women’s League and served as executive director of its local branch. She and her husband also founded the Imperial Order of Libyans which fought racial discrimination and promoted patriotism among African Americans. .