Netflix’s Self Made episode 1 ‘Fight of the Century’ The inspirational story of Sarah Breedlove who went from washwoman to Madam C.J. Walker, the first female and African American self-made millionaire. We open 1908 in St. Louis with Sarah narrating about the importance of hair. She tells us about her hair loss and the return …
Academy Award® winner Octavia Spencer stars as Madam C.J. Walker, the trailblazing African American haircare entrepreneur who was America’s first female self-made millionaire. Inspired by the book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, written by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles, the Netflix four-part limited series, SELF MADE: INSPIRED BY …