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Madame C. J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867. After suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in hair loss, she invented a line of African American hair care and beauty products.

By 1905, Walker was promoting her line doing lecture/ demonstrations around the country. In 1910, she built and opened a production facility, a beauty school and office building in Indianapolis.

Madame C.J Walker's Manufacturing Company became enormously successful, with profits equivalent to several million dollars today.

Madame C.J. Walker became one of the first American women to be a self -made millionaire. She used the wealth she amassed to support the work of African American artists, writers , scholars and entrepreneurs of the Harlem Renaissance.

We thank her for paving the way for many of the successful African American beauty businesses that have emerged since then.