Black Inventors Who Changed The World: Madame C.J. Walker
Black Inventors Who Changed The World: Madame C.J. Walker Sarah Breedlovewas born in 1867 to Owen and Minerva, sharecroppers and former slaves on a cotton plantation in Delta, Louisiana. She was the fifth child and the first to be born free since the Emancipation Proclamation. Sarah's life was marred with hardship, as she was orphaned at six or seven years old, married by 14, became a mother at 17, and a widow at age 20. The silver lining is she made it, in spite of all. Sarah moved to St. Louis when her daughter, A'Leia, was two years old, and that's when her life began to improve. She ...
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