1NAME: Madam C.J. Walker (birth name Sarah Breedlove)
2DATE OF BIRTH: December 23, 1867
3PLACE OF BIRTH: Delta, Louisiana
4DATE OF DEATH: May 25, 1919
PLACE OF DEATH: Irvington-on-Hudson, New York
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Madam Walker was an entrepreneur who built her empire developing hair products for black women. She claims to have built her company on an actual dream where a large black man appeared to her and gave her a formula for curing baldness. When confronted with the idea that she was trying to conform black women's hair to that of whites, she stressed that her products were simply an attempt to help black women |
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