History of madam C.J. walker by A'niyez Northington

Childhood

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Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, one of six children of Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, former slaves-turned sharecroppers after the Civil War. Orphaned at the age of seven, walker lived with her older sister in Louvenia, and the two worked in the cotton fields.

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Madam C.J. Walker was a businesswoman and philanthropist who was one of the first American to have a million dollars She did it through a lot of hard work and savvy marketing of cosmetics products.

Fact 2

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A'Lelia walker Born June 6, 1885 – August 17, 1931) was an American businesswoman and patron of the arts. She was the only surviving child of Madam C. J. Walker, popularly credited as being the first self-made female millionaire in the United States and one of the first African American millionaires.

Fact 3

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A museum in Atlanta is devoted to walker, as well as historic radio station. Established in 2004.

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Between 1911 and 1919, during the height of her career, Walker and her company employed several thousand women as sales agents for its products. By 1917, the company claimed to have trained nearly 20,000 women. While some sources have written that the women dressed in a characteristic uniform of white shirts and black skirts and carried black satchels, there is nothing in the Walker Beauty School manual that verifies that..

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Madam Walker received very little formal education as a child, except possibly at her family's small church in delta, Louisiana where Reverend Curtis Pollard—a black man who had served as a Louisiana state senator during Reconstruction—was the minister.

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Madam C.J. Walker is currently remembered to the nation on a USA postage stamp

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Thanks to madam's great, Great granddaughter madam's hair products is still used and remembered to this day.

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Sarah remarried in 1894, but left her second husband, John Davis, around 1903. In January 1906, Sarah married Charles Joseph Walker, a newspaper advertising salesman she had known in St. Louis, Missouri. Through this marriage, she became known as Madam C. J. Walker. The couple divorced in 1912 Charles died in 1926.

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One hundred years earlier Madam c.j. walker died, leaving a net worth estimated to have been one million dollars. Madam's life was is both inspiring and her displays her keen understanding of business and economics

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She continued her business by traveling across the united states and providing career opportunities

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She also worked as a cook for a pharmacist from whom she learned the basic chemistry that allowed her to perfect an ointment

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She also worked poorly paid washerwoman for more than a decade

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Also Madam provided scholarships for students at several black colleges

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In 1908 she opened Lelia college for beauty culture, a school named for her daughter

Quote 1

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Don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them

Quote 2

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I am not satisfied for making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of woman of my race

Quote 3

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There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights

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