Born: December 23, 1867
Birth Place: Delta, Louisiana
Born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove. Her parents were former slaves working as sharecroppers and both died during Sarah's early childhood. As a result, Sarah was forced to move from one household to another. At age seven, she moved in with her sister Louvina and her husband. After suffering abuse from Louvina’s husband, Sarah ran away and married Moses McWilliams 1885 at the age of 14, two years later She gave birth to her daughter Lelia, Her husband Moses was murdered by a White lynch mob.After this tragedy, Sarah moved to St. Louis Missouri with her daughter, where she worked as a cook and house cleaner. Unfortunately, all of the stress and hardship had begun to take its toll on her and she found her hair falling out. She tried several products which all seemed not to help her condition. Sarah soon had a dream where she was told to mix her business, selling hair products to Black women.
In 1905 Sarah moved to Denver Colorado after the death of her brother. She had a dream and was told what to mix up for her hair. Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, but I sent for it, put it on my scalp, and in a few weeks my hair was coming in faster than it had ever fallen out.” After she shared her formula with some friends and found it successful for them as well, she realized that there were almost no hair products available for Blacks. She therefore decided to go into brother, to live with her sister-in-law. When she arrived she had only $2.00 to her name yet she worked during the day as a cook in order to finance her part time business. At this point she met Charles Joseph “C.J.” Walker, a newspaperman with an innate ability for marketng. On January 4 1906 she married Walker on and the couple set up the “Madam CJ Walker Manufacturing Company” and began placing advertisements in Black newspapers throughout the United States. Although they proved a successful team, they disagreed as to how much the company should grow. After years of struggling and suffering, Sarah wanted her company to grow immensely and divorced him in order to devote herself to the business (he stayed on as a sales agent for the company.). She continued on with many of the ideas he had passed on to her, including going door-to-door to sell the products. Her hard work paid off and in 1906 she brought her daughter Lelia, a recent college graduate, in to manage the company.
I admire Madam C.J. Walker for her invention of black hair products for black women, because of her we all can have beautiful healthy hair. I has shown us as Black women we too can be successful in any and all we do..: ⊹Big Sister Sophisticated ⊹ :.
.: ⊹Baroness of ΠΔΠ ⊹ :.
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