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  1. Oct 29, 2009 · Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867. Her parents, Owen and Minerva, were Louisiana sharecroppers who had been born into slavery.Sarah, their fifth child, was the first ...

  2. Jan 23, 2024 · In 1981, the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company ceased operations. A line of cosmetics and hair-care products bearing the name Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Culture is available at Sephora retailers.

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  3. Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. [1] Multiple sources mention that although other women (like Mary Ellen ...

  4. 5 days ago · Madam C.J. Walker (born December 23, 1867, near Delta, Louisiana, U.S.—died May 25, 1919, Irvington, New York) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist who was one of the first African American female millionaires in the United States. The first child in her family born after the Emancipation Proclamation, Sarah Breedlove was born on ...

  5. Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time. She used her position to advocate for the advancement of black Americans and for an end to lynching. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, one ...

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  7. Apr 28, 2020 · Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867–May 25, 1919) was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist who revolutionized the hair care and cosmetics industry for African American women in the early 20th century.

  8. "Self Made," the Madam Walker Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, is "inspired by" On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, a nonfiction, fact-based biography written by Madam Walker's biographer and great-great-granddaughter, A'Lelia Bundles, who is a journalist and former network television news producer and executive.

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