FOTD: Who was the first female African-American millionaire?

Madame C. J. Walker was not only the first female African-American to become a millionaire, she was first self-made female to become a millionaire in America.

Walker made her money selling beauty products for black women. Products such as Vegetable Shampoo, Wonderful Hair Grower, and Vanishing Cream. She then used some of her fortune to help others. She set up some scolarship programs, donated money to Booker T. Washington’s Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama, Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association. She also lobbied politicians for civil rights and even led a group of women to Washington D.C. to protest President Woodrow Wilson’s segregation of the military.