Sarah Breedlove known as Madame C.J.Walker was born on December 23,1867,near Delta Louisiana.Madame C.J.Walker is known for an entrepreneur,philanthropist,and a political and social activist.At the age of six years old her parents died after the area was struck by a yellow fever,which is a viral infection spread by a particular species of mosquitoes.The young child then moved to Vicksburg,Mississippi to live with her sister Louvinia and brother in Law Jesse Powell where she work as a housemaid.To escape from being abuse by her sister husband Jesse Powell ,she married Moses McWilliams at the age of fourteen years old.At the age of eighteen she gave birth to a daughter name A’Leila Walker on June 6,1885.At the age of twenty her husband died due to being lynched by a group of violent people called mobs.After this tragedy,she and her two year old moved to St.louis ,Missouri working as a woman whose job is to wash,iron of clothing and linens called laundress.At the time she was making 1.50 a day and she manage to save money for her daughter to go to pubic school.
