Madame CJ Walker – America’s First Female Self-Made Millionaire

“I got my start by giving myself a start.” If you walk into a Sephora cosmetics store, you’ll find a line of Madam C.J. Walker hair products in pastel squeeze bottles. They may seem like any other line of coconut and shea oils, but the story behind their namesake is a particularly remarkable one. During the 1890s, Sarah developed a scalp disorder that caused her to…