In 1894, she married John Davis, but the marriage was troubled, and the couple later divorced. She joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where she met leading black men and women, whose education and success likewise inspired her. There, she worked as a laundress and cook. Louis, Missouri, where her four brothers were barbers. Seeking a way out of poverty, in 1889, Walker moved to St.
When her husband died in 1887, Walker became a single parent of two-year old daughter Lelia (later known as A’Lelia). Partly to escape her abusive brother-in-law, at age 14 Walker married Moses McWilliams. Orphaned at age seven, Walker lived with her older sister Louvenia, and the two worked in the cotton fields. She used her position to advocate for the advancement of black Americans and for an end to lynching.īorn Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, one of six children of Owen and Minerva Anderson Breedlove, former slaves-turned sharecroppers after the Civil War. Walker rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time.
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist, Madam C.J.
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