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Beauty Pioneer To Be On Stamp
(Taken from the Detroit Daily News?, 02/23/98) Madam C.J. Walker, an early 20th-century beauty product pioneer and one of the nation's first female millionaires, is being honored with a commemorative stamp. The stamp is part of the U.S. Postal Service's Black Heritage series. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 to ex-slaves. She married newspaper sales agent Charles Joseph Walker in 1905 and adopted his name. She launched a business designing cosmetics and hair care products for black women. She was a philanthropist to black institutions such as the NAACP, Tuskegee Institute and Bethune Cookman College. |