Madame Cj Walker
Sarah Breedlove
Early LIfe
Born Sarah Breedlove, the daughter of Louisiana sharecroppers, Walker was orphaned at six, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty with a two-year-old daughter to care for. She resettled in St. Louis and went to work as a laundress. Her early years reflected patterns all too common for black women of her generation she was orphaned at 7 she was the first black female to become an self made millionaire.
How Much Was Here Product Back Then
Wonderful Hair Grower Which Cost 50 Cents
What made her start selling hair product
in 1905 walker, who had been losing her hair, sought a treatment for the condition. The method of beauty culture she developed revolutionized black hair care. The combination of scalp preparation, application of lotions, and use of iron combs became known as the "Walker System." She distinguished her products from the hair straighteners advocated by white cosmetic firms, arguing that her treatment was geared to the special health needs of blacks.
"Beauty Culturalist's"
Walker trained her "beauty culturalist's" after establishing her business headquarters in Denver with a branch in Pittsburgh managed by her daughter A'lelia. Her second husband help promote her flouring enterprise, In 1910 she moved her headquarters to Indianapolis and her business employed over three thousand workers, mainly door-to-door saleswomen.