Madam Cj Walker Research Papers

3-Madam C.J. Walker-Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23,1867 on a cotton plantatiion near Delta,Louisina,was one of the first American women to become a self made millionare. Both her parents were recently freed slaves and she,the fifth child,was the first to be born in her family to be born free. Her mother passed away in 1874,and her father passed the following year,becoming a orphan at age 7. After her parents passed,she went to live with her sister and borther in law. They moved to Vicksberg,Missippi in 1877. To escape the abuse of her brother in law,she married Moses Williams at the age of 14. Her daughter A`Lelia,was born on June 6,1885. Her husband passed away two years later,so she and her daughter moved St.Louis. In St.Louis,she worked

In the late 1890`s,she developed a scalp disorder that caused her to lose much of her hair. This led to her experiemnt with home remidies and store bought hair care treatments to improve her condition. In 1905,she was hierd by commision agent Annie Turnbo Malone ,a succesful,black,hair care product entrepreneeur and moved to Denver,Colorado. While in Denver,her husband helped her create advertisement for hair care treatments for African Americans. Her husband convinced her to take a more recognizable name “Madam C.J. Walker”,by which she was now known as. In 1907,she and her husband traveled around the South and Southeast to promote her “Walker Method” products,which included her formula for pomade,brushing and the use of heated combs. As profits continued to grow,in 1908,she opend a factory and beauty school in

Walkers daughter A`Lelia Walker help facilitate the purchase of property in Harlem,New York. In 1916,Walker moved her buisness to Harlem. From there,she would continue to operate her buisness while leaving the day-to-day operations of her factory in Indianapolis to its forelady. Aside from her buisness,she quickly immersed herself into Harlem`s social and political culture. She founded philanthropies that inculded educational scholarships and donations to homes for the eldarly,the NAACP and the National Conference of Lynching,along with other oraginations to improve the life of African-Americans. She donated a large amount of money by an African-Americans to the constructions of the Indiapolis of the YMCA in 1913. Waler passed away at the age of 51 on May 25,1919 at the estate home she built for herself in Irvington-on-Hudson,New York. Walker was the sole owner of her buisness,which was valued at more that 1 million. Her personal was estimated between 600,000 and 700,000. Today,Walker is cited as one of the first African American to became a self made