Madame C.J. Walker
Sarah Breedlove
CEO
Objective: To expand small businesses created by entrepreneurs into competitive companies that will be able to compete in intense markets.
Location: Irvington-on Hudson, NY
Twitter: @WalkerHairCEO
Skills
- strong-willed
- hard worker
- dedicated
- ambitious
Experience
employed as a laundress in St. Louis (1887-1905)
invented hair-care products
marketed hair-care products (1905-1919)
created a school for hair (1908-1910)
Donated to Charitable Organizations
With the money I've made I donated to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, Mary McLeod Bethune's Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls, Lucy Laney's Haynes Institute, Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Palmer Memorial Institute, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Colored YMCA of Indianapolis, and the National Conference on Lynching.
Tutored Young Men and Women
My extra time off of work has been spent on tutoring African American men and women in how to use and make different hair-care products. Then, I would offer them jobs within my company.
Designed a School in Africa
I believe education is very important and can help improve opportunities. Most girls do not receive an equal chance to obtain an education in foreign countries, so I established a school in West Africa for girls.
Achievements
- earned the position of the first black female millionaire in the U.S.
- acquired the leading black philanthropist spot of her time
Reference
Booker T. Washington
Reference
Mary McLeod Bethune
Reference
Charlotte Hawkins Brown