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On this 2nd day of BlackHistoryMonth I choose to highlight Madam C.J. Walker.

Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23,1867, near Delta, Louisiana. After suffering from a scalp ailment that resulted in her own hair loss, she invented a line of African-American hair care products in 1905.   She promoted her products by traveling about the country giving lecture-demonstrations and eventually established Madam C.J. Walker Laboratories to manufacture cosmetics and train sales beauticians. Her savvy business acumen led her to become the first female self-made millionaire in the United States who donated the largest amount of money by an African-American toward the construction of an Indianapolis YMCA in 1913. She was rivaled only by the countless philanthropic endeavors for which she is also known. She died May 25,1919 at the age of 51 from hypertension.