Sarah Breedlove Walker

Danielle Eliopulos

Sarah Walker Biography

• She was born in Delta, Louisiana.

• She was the first member in her family to be born free.

• A woman who came from the cotton fields of the south

• Built her own factory on her own ground.

• Sarah received very little education

• By the age of ten, had moved away from home to look for work.

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• Sarah Breedlove Walker was an African-American business woman, hair care entrepreneur and philanthropist

• She made her fortune by developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company.

• The Guinness Book of Records cites Walker as the first female who became a millionaire

by her own achievements.

• I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations...I have built my own factory on my own ground.

• By 1917 she had the largest business in the United States owned by an African-American.

• Ms. Walker was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1992 and in2002.

• Mollify Kete Antae listed Madam C. J. Walker on this list of 100 Greatest African American.

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