Madam C.J. Walker; her niece Anjetta Breedlove; Alice Kelly; and Walker Company bookkeeper Lucy Flint , 1911, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Madam C. J. Walker, the entrepreneur who launched a hair care business that made her one of America's first Black female success stories—the subject of the 2020 Netflix series " Self Made ," starring Octavia Spencer—first came to Harlem in the early 1910s. After growing her business in the Midwest, she bought two townhous