Discover Madam C.J. Walker's inspiring journey from poverty to millionaire, revolutionising beauty, entrepreneurship, and ...

Madam C.J. Walker’s meteoric, trailblazing business sojourn, employing nearly 40,000, is nothing short of phenomenal, ...

Netflix’s Self Made, inspired by the life of Madam C.J. Walker, tells the incredible story of how she built a haircare empire and became America’s first female self-made millionaire.

Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove in Louisiana in 1867, was the most successful black wellness mogul of her day. Now a new Netflix series will show how this enterprising daughter of freed ...

Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business ...

Madam C.J. Walker was suffering from poverty and hair loss when she decided to concoct a hair regrowth lotion to heal her damaged scalp. Fast forward a handful of years and millions of dollars ...

Stories of the first black millionaires Madam C.J. Walker and Mary Ellen Pleasant. Black History’s Hidden Figures That Inspired Today’s Innovators Five groundbreaking black innovators you ...

Join us at the library for The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker, an inspiring program celebrating the legacy of America’s first self-made female millionaire and pioneer of Black haircare.

A hair-care entrepreneur, she was the richest, best-known Black woman of her day Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Reviewed by Charles Potters Madam C.J. Walker (1867 to 1919) was an early 20th ...

The intensity of Walker’s early jobs began to cause hair loss, and it was out of this unfortunate circumstance that grew her “secret” formula for a scalp ointment that promoted healthy hair growth.