Madame C.J. Walker

Madame C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana. Her parents were former slaves and she was orphaned at age seven. Her mother died first and her father died shortly there after. Due to the fact of her impoverished background she received a very limited amount of education. She overcame the odds, and became the first American women of any race or statue to become a millionaire. She was married at the early age of fourteen and widowed by age twenty. (Source: Encyclopedia of Black America.) Madame C.J. Walker was an artisan entrepreneur because she had the technical skill to invent a hair care preparation for black women. She had been poor for most of her life so as a result, she also has qualities of a refugee entrepreneur. She wanted to escape the life of a laundress and she had to provide for her daughter as well as herself because her husband was no longer living. She later remarried Charles J. Walker from who she gained her name. The hair care preparation that...