Sarah Breedlove, born in 1867, started her career in her brother's barber shop and moved to Denver to start her own hair care business after suffering from hair loss. She married Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name to Madam C.J. Walker, where she created a national sales network and built a beauty school, factory, and lab in Indianapolis, becoming America's first self-made female millionaire and fighting for civil rights.

1. • Sarah Breedlove was born in Louisiana in 1867.
• First in her family born free after Emancipation Proclamation.
• Her first job was in her brothers’ barber shop in St. Louis.
• Like many women of the era, she suffered from hair loss.
• She moved to Denver to start her own hair care business.
• She married Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name.
• Madam Walker created a national network of sales agents.
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Meet America’s first self-made female millionaire
MADAM C.J. WALKER
• She built a beauty school, factory, & lab in Indianapolis.
• She taught other women how to start their own businesses.
• She fought for civil rights and was a generous philanthropist.