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Madame C.J. Walker Was The First Self-Made Millionaire
And she saved African-American hair. In those days, harsh lye soaps and a lack of access to acceptable hair care products resulted in African-American women periodically losing a lot of their hair.
Madame not only invented a hair-saving hair product line in 1905, she saved millions of heads of hair by traveling the country and lecturing about proper hair care. Then she founded Madame C.J. Walker Laboratories which developed and manufactured hair care products (like the flat iron, hair dye and many of the products we use today) and trained beauticians.