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Madame CJ Walker
Entrepreneur
- Famous African American inventor and entrepreneur Sarah
Breedlove McWilliams Walker, better known as Madame CJ
Walker, was born in rural Louisiana.
- Orphaned at 7, Walker worked the cotton fields and later
as a laundry woman. Walker suffered a scalp ailment that
caused her to lose some of her hair.
- Embarrassed by her appearance, she began experimenting
with various home remedies, eventually creating and selling
Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning
and healing formula.
- The business that Madame Walker created with her famous
beauty products employed as many as 3,000 people. Her
creativity and ambition led her to be the first known
African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire.
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