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Walker's lasting legacy today as well as educational activities on entrepreneurship..
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She buys herself cars, fancy dresses, and a mansion with 34 rooms! This is the story of a leader in the hair care industry, which is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but it's also a tale of the importance of empowering women to become economically independent.
With her immense wealth, she treats herself too.
Walker, she Builds a Business empire, dominates the black hair care market with her natural products, and offers opportunities for other poor washerwomen in her community to have a path to financial freedom.
As Madam C.
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Walker," a fancy high society lady with the authority and know-how to help black women with their hair.
So, she rebrands herself as "
Madam C.
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She can't get people to buy her products at first.
But Sarah has a problem.
From the stress of backbreaking labor and having to grow up so quickly, Sarah's hair begins to fall out! Instead of falling into despair, Sarah learns how to take care of her hair and invents her own recipe to encourage her hair to grow.
By fourteen, Sarah is a wife and by eighteen she is a mother.
She cooks, she cleans, she picks cotton, she does laundry, and she babysits.
When Sarah is just a girl, she learns the value of hard work.
Born on the same plantation where her parents were once enslaved-Sarah is the first child in her family born free.
Walker) reinvents and rebrands herself as a forceful entrepreneur whose products still dominate the black hair care industry today.
Walker Builds a Business, Sarah Breedlove (AKA Madam C.
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