Madam C.J. Walker African American tennis player Serena Williams once stated, “Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.” In life, there are times where everyone struggles and fails, but the only thing to do is to stay on top and work through. Madam C.J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana. (Madame C. J. Walker. 2022) She was one of six children of Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, former slaves-turned sharecroppers after the Civil War. During the 1890s, Walker started to lose her hair. Her work as a laundress was most likely to cause this problem, as it exposed her to harsh lye soap, dirt and hot steam. To fix this, she embarked upon a search for a cure for not only her hair, but other Black women. In 1906, She opened up her own store called Madam C.J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, where she sold hair-care products for Black women. She died May 25, 1919 in Irvington, New York at the age of fifty-one due to hypertension. Madam C.J. Walker developed and marketed a line of cosmetics and hair care products for Black women which innovated the field of entrepreneurs by creating opportunities for other Black Americans to do the same and influenced the …show more content…
Walker innovated the field of entrepreneurs by creating opportunities for other Black Americans to do the same. She also created economic opportunities for women. Walker made her way, many Black women were poor and cowardly about business. Additionally, they were also not getting paid enough. She saw her innovative line of beauty products and techniques as more than just a way to make money-she saw it as a way to help other black women achieve their full potential. By training and recruiting scores of "Walker Agents" to sell her products, she enabled literally thousands of black women to go into business for themselves at a time when the best most could hope for were menial jobs for low pay (Madam C.J. Walker,