Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C.
Poor and widowed when she arrived in St..
Tyrone McKinley Freeman \'s biography highlights how giving shaped Walker\'s life before and after she became wealthy.
Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist Philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow.
Walker was celebrated as America\'s first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s.
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Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C