Madam C.J.Walker explained it this way: "If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard."

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Or they washed clothes. Madam C.J.Walker worked as a washerwoman for twenty years.

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From then on,Sarah used the name Madam C.J.Walker.

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