MADAME C.J. WALKER, AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK FEMALE MILLIONAIRE Madame C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867.  The fifth child of Owen and Minerva, Louisiana sharecroppers, she was the first in their family to be born free after the… more »

“"Peaceful revolutions are slow but sure. It takes time to leaven a great unwieldy mass like this nation with the leavening ideas of justice and liberty, but the evolution is all the more certain in its results because it is so slow.’" Susette… more »