717. Who Was Madam C.J. Walker?

She was born in a Louisiana cotton field to parents who had been enslaved, orphaned by age seven, and married at fourteen to escape an abusive home — yet Madam C.J. Walker became the first self-made female millionaire in American history. What if the problem everyone complained about became the business idea that changed your life? Connor tells the story of Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove…