What is madame cj walkers accoplishments?

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Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23 1867, Madame CJ Walker started out life in a family of slave, she became an orphane at the age of seven and got married, for the first time, at age fourteen.her husband died. She then began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose most of her hair and tried many different products to cure it. In 1905 she moved to Denver and married Charles Joseph Walker, her third husband, and began her buisness selling Madame CJ Walkers Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning treatment she claimed came to her in a dream. In 1908 she opened Lelia College to train Walker hair culturists in Pittsburgh. Then in 1910 she moved to Indianapolis where she built a factory, hair and manicure salon and another training school, that year she also contributed $1,000 to the building fund of the "colored" YMCA in Indianapolis. In July 1917, when a white mob murdered more than three dozen blacks in East St. Louis, Illinois, Walker joined a group of Harlem leaders who visited the White House to present a petition favoring federal anti-lynching legislation. Also, in 1917 she organized the first ever Hair Culturists Union of America convention in Philadelphia. by the time she died she had helped create the role of the 20th Century, self-made American businesswoman; established herself as a pioneer of the modern black hair-care and cosmetics industry; and set standards in the African-American community for corporate and community giving. She truly went from rags-to-riches and once commented"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success, and if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard." hey my name is Melissa Boyd and my sn on aim is elmoluver218