This is a story about a woman who had nothing when walking to St. Louis and become a millionaire in 1914. Sarah Breedlove Walker was born in 1867 to former slaves in northeast Louisiana. She was an orphan and she made her way to St. Louis and supported herself as a washerwoman for 18 years. A scalp condition caused her to loose some of her hair, and she experimented with a variety of homemade concoctions in an effort to regrow her hair. To her amazement new hair sprouted, it was soft and shiny. The secret formula intrigue her friends so much and they constantly ask her about it.

At the time,there were virtually no hair products available specifically for African-Americans at the time, and Sarah saw a business opportunity. She realized there was a demand for this need;therefore, she founded the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company with her husband, Charles Joseph Walker. She worked restlessly to sell her product from door to door and ask other women to join her. Not long later, in 1910, she had about 1,000 sales agents.