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Born as Sarah Breedlove, she was the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove, recently freed slaves. Sarah was the youngest of five children and The first free-born child.
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Sarah's mother died from yellow fever.
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Sarah's father died from yellow fever.
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Sarah marries a man name Moses McWilliams.
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Sarah givers birth to her daughter, A' Lelia.
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Sarah's first husband waslynched, according to rumor.
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Sarah loses hair due to stress and hair products.
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After Sarah marries a newspaperman, she decides to adopt his initials, giving her the title, Madame CJ Walker.
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Sarah and her daughter start a college for "hair culturists" named Lelia College. It lasts from 1908 to 1910.
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After Sarah's business starts giving them a profit of $10 a day, her husband, Charles Joseph, wants her to stop expanding her business. They soon seperated.
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Ignoring the warnings of her doctor, Sarah died from hypertension at age 51.