Meet America’s first self-made female millionaire.

1. Sarah Breedlove was born in Louisiana in 1867.
2. First in her family born free after Emancipation Proclamation.
3. Her first job was in her brothers’ barber shop in St. Louis.
4. Like many women of the era, she suffered from hair loss.
5. She moved to Denver to start her own hair care business.
6. She married Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name.
7. Madam Walker created a national network of sales agents.
8. She built a beauty school, factory, & lab in Indianapolis.
9. She taught other women how to start their own businesses.
10. She fought for civil rights and was a generous philanthropist.

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