A hair-care entrepreneur, she was the richest, best-known Black woman of her day Reviewed by Charles Potters Madam C.J. Walker (1867 to 1919) was an early 20th-century entrepreneur who created a ...

The intensity of Walker’s early jobs began to cause hair loss, and it was out of this unfortunate circumstance that grew her “secret” formula for a scalp ointment that promoted healthy hair growth.

Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman visits the family archive of Madame C. J. Walker to examine her rise to power. Photographs, documents and artifacts illustrate Walker’s journey from growing up on an old slave ...

Octavia Spencer stars in a new Netflix show about the life of Madam CJ Walker When American journalist A'Lelia Bundles published her first article about her great-great grandmother, Madam CJ ...

Meet the First Self-Made Female Millionaire Madam C.J. Walker was suffering from poverty and hair loss when she decided to concoct a hair regrowth lotion to heal her damaged scalp. Fast forward a ...

AND NOW TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM. SARAH BREEDLOVE, PERHAPS BETTER KNOWN AS MADAME C.J. WALKER, WAS BORN THIS WEEK IN 1867. WALKER MOVED WEST TO ...

Madam C.J. Walker, who was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867, invented a hair care treatment for Black women. She traveled around the country demonstrating the “Walker Method,” which involved a ...