Madam C.J. Walker-The First Black Female Millionaire

Born in 19th century rural Louisiana to former slaves, Sarah Breedlove rose to become the first female African-American self made millionaire in the United States. Known as Madam C.J. Walker, she developed a line of beauty care products for black women. Walker built a factory, hair salon, mail order business and a beauty school which trained 20,000 sales agents. Later she became a philanthropist and was active in organizing the NAACP's Silent Protest Parade in New York in 1917.

Presenter: Richard Feingold teaches American Business History at Bergen Community College and holds and MBA from Penn State University and B.A. in history from Rutgers University.