Madam C. J. Walker

Madam CJ Walker (born Sarah Breedlove, born December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, † May 25, 1919 in Irvington, New York, United States) was an American cosmetics entrepreneur.

Biography

Walker grew up in very modest circumstances in the southern United States. She invented and developed a hair care product, which was the time hotcakes. This was the basis of their later cosmetics company. In 1906 she married Charles Joseph Walker, and she took the name of her husband and, therefore, Madam CJ Walker was called.

Madam CJ Walker became the first millionaire in the country, which had developed their own assets. As a woman, and, moreover, as African-American woman she built for that time completely unusual a sleek private estate on the Hudson River, adjacent to the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. A guest was Enrico Caruso, who gave the Italian- sounding name Villa Lewaro the villa.

Madam Walker died in her villa and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Of your assets, she bequeathed her only daughter A'Lelia Walker. In 1998 it was dedicated by the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp.