Madam C. J. Walker Biography

Well, hello there my name is Sarah Breedlove, but you might know me as Madam C. J. Walker one of the first black females to become a millionaire, at a young age I opened my own factory and a beauty school I also created the world’s first hair-straightening formula aka the hot comb. You’re welcome. Enough of my boring millionaire life, I’ll tell you how I became to be. I was born December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana to two former slaves Owen and Minerva, but by the age of seven I became an orphan my mother died in 1874 and my father passed the next year. After they died I was sent to live with my sister, louvinia and her husband, we moved to Vicksburg Mississippi, in 1877, where I picked cotton and did household work. At the ripe age of 14, I …show more content…
In 1905, I was hired as a commission agent by Annie Turnbo Malone, a successful, black, hair care product entrepreneur, and that’s when I moved to Denver Colorado. While in Colorado my husband Charles helped, me create advertisements for my hair care remedies for African Americans that I had been working to perfect. Charles told me to go by a different name while I was promoting my products, he told me to go by the name “Madam C. J. Walker,” by which I was there for known as. In 1907, my husband and I travelled around the south and southeast promoting my products and giving lecture demonstrations of my “Walker Method” where I used my own formula pomade, and heated combs to activate the product. As the profits continued to grow, I started my own factory and and beauty school in Pittsburgh, and by 1910, I transferee my business to Indianapolis, the Madam C.J. Walker manufacturing company became wildly successful. My factory not only manufactured cosmetics, but trained sales