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Although the first person who answered this question wrote: "She was important because was the first African American MILLIONAIRE!!!!!!" that answer is not entirely accurate. There were at least a few African American men who were considered millionaires before Madam C. J. Walker including Robert Church of Memphis. At the time of her death, Madam Walker had amassed an estate worth more than $1 million in today's dollars through hair care products sales and real estate investments. One might consider her "important," because she was a pioneer of what has become a multi-billion dollar, international hair care and cosmetics industry. It is also worth noting that she used her wealth and influence as a philanthropist and political activist who provided jobs for thousands of African American women (who otherwise might have only been able to be hired as maids, washerwoman, cooks and sharecroppers during the early 1900s), contributed to black schools and colleges, supported the NAACP's anti-lynching movement and who spoke out on behalf of African American soldiers who were being discriminated against in the U. S. Army as they defended America in Europe during World War I. (Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles)

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At the time of her death, Madam Walker had amassed an estate worth more than $1 million in today's dollars through hair care products sales and real estate investments. One might consider her "important," because she was a pioneer of what has become a multi-billion dollar, international hair care and cosmetics industry. It is also worth noting that she used her wealth and influence as a philanthropist and political activist who provided jobs for thousands of African American women (who otherwise might have only been able to be hired as maids, washerwoman, cooks and sharecroppers during the early 1900s), contributed to black schools and colleges, supported the NAACP's anti-lynching movement and who spoke out on behalf of African American soldiers who were being discriminated against in the U. S. Army as they defended America in Europe during World War I. (Source: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles)

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