Sunday, September 23, 2018
Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker, whose given name was Sarah Breedlove, was one of the very first African American women living in the United States to become a millionaire. Her source of wealth stemmed from her line of hair care products, which she created after contracting an ailment of the scalp herself that damaged her hair. Desperate, the healthy hair-less Sarah Breedlove tried mixing her own concoctions of remedial herbs and pre-existing hair products. She was then hired by a haircare company and moved to Colorado, where she soon after started up her own hair product brand. With this brand of hers, Sarah Breedlove, under the public name of Madam C.J. Walker, became one of the first woman millionaires, but she could not flaunt it like J.P. Morgan or Rockefeller or Carnegie. Because of her skin colour, she had to keep her immense wealth quiet, because of the possibility of being lynched or mobbed.
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Not only was Sarah Breedlove the first African-American woman to become a millionaire, she was the first female self-made millionaire in the United States. Not only did she keep her wealth quiet in order to protect herself, she was also trying to protect her family and all those who worked for her from violence. It's interesting that whites did not seem to notice her wealth, or perhaps simply ignored it, since her products were exclusively marketed to African-American women.
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