Madam CJ Walker

Madam CJ Walker Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, better known as Madame CJ Walker was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, tycoon and philanthropist.
She founded her own business and began selling her own product called Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula.

Her products formed the basis of a thriving national corporation employing at one point over 3,000 people.

The Walker System, which included a broad offering of cosmetics, licensed Walker Agents and Walker Schools offered meaningful employment and personal growth to thousands of Black women.

Madame Walker’s aggressive marketing strategy combined with relentless ambition led her to be recognised  as the first known African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire. 

Her prescription for success was perseverance, hard work, faith in herself and in God, "honest business dealings" and of course, quality products.
"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success," she once observed. "and if there is, I have not found it - for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard."

The Guinness Book of Records cites Walker as the first female who became a millionaire by her own achievements.

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