From Madam C.J. Walker to the Billionaires Club: How Black Wealth Reached Historic Heights – Free Press of Jacksonville

From Madam C.J. Walker to the Billionaires Club: How Black Wealth Reached Historic Heights – Free Press of Jacksonville

by Sylvia Perry More than a century after Madam C.J. Walker shattered economic barriers by becoming America’s first self-made female millionaire, a new generation of Black wealth creators is redefining what financial success looks like on a global scale. Walker, who built a hair care empire for Black women beginning in the early 1900s, was recognized as America’s first African-American millionaire by 1910, just four years after founding her comp…