USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was “the first Black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Madam C.J. Walker. Photo courtesy A’Lelia Bundles/Madam Walker Family Collection. Most people who’ve heard of her will tell you one or two things: She was the first black millionairess, and she invented the world’s first hair-straightening formula and/or the hot comb.

Detailed explanation-3: -Walker made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She became known also for her philanthropy and activism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Madam C.J. Walker was a U.S. entrepreneur who built a highly successful hair-care business in the early 1900s. She founded the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company in 1906 with the Wonderful Hair Grower, a coconut-oil-and-sulfur formula to treat Black women’s scalps and hair.

Detailed explanation-5: -Searching to find an answer to her own hair loss and inspired by the work of Malone-who she worked for as a sales agent in the early 1900s-Walker developed her first product, Madam C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, in 1906.