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right. Okay.
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This is Madam C.
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J. Walker.
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She is pretty cool.
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She's an American business person and philanthropist who was the
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first African American female millionaire.
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Okay. She was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23rd, 18
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67. She was born in Delta, Louisiana.
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Well, I skipped one.
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Sure. The first child at 17, and was widowed by
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the age of 20.
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She invented a line of hair care.
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Wow. She invented a line of hair care products for
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African American women.
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After she herself was suffering from a scalp disease, she
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promoted her products by traveling around the country, giving lecture
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demonstrations as profits continued to grow in 1908 Madam C.
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J. Walker opened up a beauty school and factory in
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Pittsburgh. She trained African American sales petitions to promote the
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products called Walker Women.
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I don't know what is happening.
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Walker agents.
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Sorry, Walker.
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Agents also gave scalp treatment styled hair and did manicures
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and massages.
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So, like everything you get done in a salon, being
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a walker agent was empowering.
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It helped many women in other careers earn more money.
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Facts about Madam C.
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J. Walker, the hair grower, that she was most famous
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for came to her in a dream she Onley spent
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about a dollar 25 Oh, investing in like getting the
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products are like the material she needed for that hair
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grower. So, like her initial investment was only a dollar
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25 her assets.
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Okay, so when she died, she was worth about a
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million, which is equal to 14.9 million today.
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Like in today's money.
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Her main ingredients in the famous shampoo waas, coconut oil,
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olive oil and lie Madam C J.
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Walker died in on May 25th, 1919 due to complications
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from hypertension.
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So yeah, so the reason this is like, so like,
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not important.
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Like I'd say important is because she, like you have
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to think about back in the time period like it
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was in the 19 hundreds, like early 19 hundreds, almost
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18 90 area.
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She was African American and woman.
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So, like that never happens.
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Nobody ever listened, setting or used thio like, and she
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was able to accomplish so much in that time period
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like it's a huge accomplishment to do now.
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Imagine how hard it was for her back then, being
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African American and a woman like That's just I don't
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know, it's crazy to me, but yeah, it was my
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