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Sarah Breedlove was born on December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana; she was the daughter of former slaves. Both parents died in 1874 of a yellow fever outbreak. Married in 1882 at age 14 and widowed in 1888, Sarah moved to St. Louis with her daughter, Lelia. By 1905, Sarah and Lelia were living in Denver w ....

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.... to the Caribbean and Central America and moved to Harlem in 1916 after divorcing C.J. Walker. In 1917, she organized the first Madam C.J. Walker Hair Culturists Union in America Convention. After her death in 1919 at age 51, Madam Walker's will qualify that the company must always be headed by women, as it is today Madam Walker's business thrived even after her death in 1919. Pictured above are Walker Beauty School gradates and official in St. Louis, MO, in the 1930s Madam Walker took her products door-to-do ....