Her Neighbors Were The Rockefellers. She Started On A Cotton Plantation.

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]door to door. She trained sales agents, Walker agents, who went door to door through black communities across the country. She did not advertise in newspapers. She moved through churches, women's clubs, community organizations.

[00:00:15]She understood that black women's trust was not purchased through media. It was earned through relationships. By 1910, she had moved operations to Indianapolis and built a factory, a laboratory, a beauty school. She was not selling products. She was building infrastructure. At its peak, the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company employed over 40,000 sales agents, almost exclusively black women. This was not a coincidence of charity. It was strategic design. Walker understood that the only way to