Enterprise
Madam C. J. Walker
1867 – 1919
Born Sarah Breedlove on a Louisiana cotton plantation two years after Emancipation. Built the largest Black-owned business in the country at the time of her death. Among the first self-made woman millionaires in American history. A significant funder of the NAACP, the YMCA, and anti-lynching activism.
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