Sarah Breedlove (aka Madam C. J. Walker), a black woman born two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, began her career washing clothes and ended it as the founder of a cosmetics company—and a self-made millionaire. She was, in fact, the first female self-made millionaire in American history. Check out this beautiful story of a beauty tycoon.

 

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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles: https://amzn.to/2PvIG63

 

The True Story of Madam C.J. Walker | TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM: https://youtu.be/WrpVozNIHds