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Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker, better known as Madame CJ Walker, is famous for creating hair products for African American's hair. She also created cosmetics for African American's. Sarah Walker was born in 1867 in a poor house in Louisiana. She was the daughter of former slaves and when she was seven, she became an orphan. She and her sister survived by working on a cotton field in some parts of Mississippi. Sarah got married at the age of fourteen and had her only daughter in 1885. Two years later after Mrs. Walker got married, her husb