Madam Walker Obstacles

Madam C.J Walker was the first female African American self made millionaire in America thanks to her haircare products directed to African American women who had very few products in the nineteen-hundreds. The early nineteen-hundreds in which Madam Walker was born in, was a tough time to be black. Walker’s own parents were just freed slaves in the time she was born. African Americans were faced with many barriers such as violence, Jim Crow Laws, and lack of education directed to them. Not only was Madam Walker black, she was a woman and they too had very few rights. When Walker was thirty years old, she encountered hair loss due to poor hair care and stress, this lead her to find a solution. She explored solutions by herself to hair loss and made hair care products to Black women. This was very rare for the early in the early nineteen-hundreds because they were mostly ignored in society in that time period. Madam Walker helped African American women have a voice,and she is
She lived her life to the absolute last day. She worked hard and perceived into her best. Walker pushed through obstacles made to stop her. Once she became a millionaire she didn't shy away from the black community, she helped them. Not only did she give help the black community, she gave black women a voice by providing jobs to the people who needed them. Walker did not shy away from her hardship, in fact she embraced them. At the National Negro Business League Convention in July, 1912, Walker said: "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there, I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground." Walker is easily one the most inspirational people of the early nineteen hundreds. She demanded a voice and she got