Sarah Breedlove was born on December 23, 1867, in Delta, Louisiana, to a family of poor sharecroppers. Sarah was the first born free of a family of three children. The Breedloves had worked as slaves on cotton plantation in Louisiana, to gain their freedom at the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1965. At age six, she was orphaned, and four years later, she went to live with her sister Louvenia in Vicksburg, Mississippi. However, Louvenia's …showed first 75 words of 701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 701 total…in Indianapolis has been converted to the "Madam Walker Urban Life Center". The company that she operates out of the city and yield approximately $2 billion per industry year. " I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. I was promoted from there to the washtub...and from there promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations...I have built my factory on my own ground.' Sarah Breedlove.