Madam Walker Research Paper

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German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche articulated: “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Undoubtedly, this was a credo by which Sarah Breedlove, aka, Madam C.J. Walker lived her life. Madam Walker started her life entrenched in proverty – a life all too familiar for African-American families in the later part of the 1800s. But the tragedies she encountered throughout her life never defeated her determination to succeed; in fact, those tragedies might have been the catalyst which catapulted her to become the first African-American female millionaire. Madam Walker was born into a Louisianan sharecropping family in 1867. By the age of 22, she had endured more than her share of personal hardships: orphaned by age 6, married by 14,

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