Thursday, 15 October 2009

Famous inventors: "Madam" C.J. Walker.


This week, in my blog I want to talk about a special inventor from history.
CJ walker was born Sarah Breed love in 1867. But when she was 7, her parents died so she had to work in the cotton fields.
When she was only 14 years old, she married Moses McWilliam and 4 years later, she had her only daughter Lelia. When Lilia was just two, Moses also died so Sarah needed to work again and got a job washing clothes.
When she was in her twenties, she started to lose some hair so she developed new hair care products and changed her name to Madam CJ Walker.
3 years later, she opened a training college in Pittsburg and, in 1910, built a new factory.
At the age of 49, she gave money to help African Americans but, after 3 years, she died, at the age of 52.

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