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Person · 1867–1919

Madam C.J. Walker

The daughter of enslaved parents who built a hair-care empire and became one of America's first self-made female millionaires.

A founder of [[black-business]].

Born Sarah Breedlove to formerly enslaved parents, Madam C.J. Walker created a line of Black hair-care products and a national sales force of thousands of Black women. She used her fortune to fund education, the arts, and anti-lynching causes.

On the timeline

  1. 1910
    Madam C.J. Walker builds a beauty empire

    Sarah Breedlove — Madam C.J. Walker — turns a hair-care line into a national enterprise, becoming one of the first self-made female millionaires in America.

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