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December 23rd

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  1. 1867
    The Rise

    Madam C.J. Walker born

    Sarah Breedlove, later Madam C.J. Walker, is born in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where her parents had been enslaved. She is the first of her family born into freedom.

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