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Sarah Breedlove was born on December 23,1867
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When Sarah was 7, both of her parents died of yellow fever
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To survive she and her siblings picked cotton
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When Sarah was 20, she joined the St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopical Church
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In 1881Sarah married Moses McWilliams
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Sarah then worked as a laundress
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In i885 Sarah and Moses had a girl named A’lelia
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In 1887 Moses McWilliams died
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Walker In 1906 Sarah married Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name to Madam C.J.
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In 1910 Madam C.J Walker moved to Indianapolis, Indiana to set up the headquarters for her business.
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In 1915 Madame C.J had a 34- room mansion built for her in New York.
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In 1912 Madam C.j Walker hosted the first Annual Walker Beauty Culturists Convention
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Sometime between 1913-1916 Madam C.J Walker and Charles Joseph Walker divorced .
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Madam C.J. Walker donated 1,000 dollars to the Tuskegee Institute and hundreds to the NAACP and other black charities. She also had helped establish the Mary McLeod Bethune school.
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Some of the remedy
was grown in Africa
She claimed the ingredients came to her in a dream
She did not know how to read and write until later in life.
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Madam C.J Walker died in 1919 She was buried at Woodland
Cemetery in the BronxShe left an estate valued at two-million dollars
She died after World war I
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“I got my start by giving myself a start ”‘‘Perseverance is my motto”
“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
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Madam C.J. was known for her philanthropy
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