![]() While in Indianapolis in 1910, she was so very taken by the city that she moved her business there and built a new factory where she manufactured her products and set up a beauty school for training purposes. Walker logged thousands of miles on the road selling her products along the way. Sarah married Denver newspaperman Charles Joseph Walker in 1906 and although the marriage only lasted a few years, Sarah established The Madame C.J. Her re-designed steel comb with spaced teeth allowed Black women to straighten and press their hair easily. Her product line expanded and she enjoyed success. After much trial and error, she perfected her concoctions and sold them door to door in the Black community. She shared the remedy with her friends and it helped them also. Some of the remedy was only grown in Africa so she sent for it, mixed it and applied it to her scalp and in a few weeks her hair was growing back quickly. She prayed for an answer and had a dream that a man appeared to her and told her what to mix to save her hair. Sarah could not find any product that saved her hair. Soon after Sarah began to lose her hair-partly due to the method she was using to straighten her hair by dividing it into sections, wrapping string around the sections and twisting them-making her hair straighter when she combed it out later. ![]() Louis and found work as a washerwoman and a housekeeper. In 1887 Sarah's husband was killed and it was then that the young widow moved to St. Sarah married when she was fourteen and she had a daughter, Leila, in 1885. She and her older sister re-located to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Being poor, her parents died when Sarah was just seven years old. Walker saw so much success that she became the first female African American millionaire.īorn Sarah Breedlove in 1867, Walker's parents were former slaves who became sharecroppers in Louisiana. Included in the products were conditioners, growth stimulant, scalp aliment cures and an improved metal comb used to straighten curly hair. Walker Manufacturing Company made and distributed hair and beauty supplies for Black women. ![]() Walker owned and ran the largest Black-owned company in the United States. Walker came from the cotton fields of the South.
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