c.j. walker. madam c.j. walker. d why you chose to create it. >> well, madam c.j. was a standard bearer in my home. my mom used her as an example for me and my siblings, because we were from very humble begins. and madam was born a slave-- the first to be free in her family. and she was able to, as you said, to just achieve so much through insurmountable odds, and she didn't have the right to vote or really own property. she was born sarah breedlove. she became madam c.j. walker through marriage and through her marriage, and basically in name, became one of the most powerful women of her time. >> trevor: it really is fascinating when you watch the story because, essentially, she made the fenty beauty of her time. >> she did. >> trevor: that's what she did. here she was a a black woman who realized black women weren't being catered to at all-- something that is surprisingly still true today in beauty and in products and in care. and she said, "i'm going to make something for my people, and i'm going to put my face on

. >> the story of madam c.j. walkere early 20th century became the country's first self-made millionaire with a line of cosmetics and hair care. >> my mother used madam c.j. in our household as an example of what we could achieve, especially since she predated us. at the turn of the century she was able to achieve insurmountable odds. >> spencer nearly walked away from the series before it began until fellow executive producer lebron james stepped in to make sure she received pay equal to her fellow co-stars. >> the studio didn't want to give me certain things i felt i needed. and lebron intervened on my behalf. if you don't see my potential as a producer, as an actor, that i'm an equal partner, i'm prepared to say, thank you for thinking of me and i've had to do that several times. and i think if more women understood their worth and value, they would understand how powerful their voices are when they say no. >> you and me, we got to work harder, be smarter, and get rich. >> i think my mother, by introducing us to mada

in the netflix series called "self made" about america's first femal self-made millionaire, madam c.j. walkerts made for it. but most important, i know if she looked good, we all look good. >> right about that.

she was a standard bearer in our home. >> let's break it down and tell people about madam c.j. walkern -- tell us about what you think brought her into this category of millionaire? >> she was fearless, and tenacity to overcome insurmountable odds to become the nation's first self-made female millionaire i mean, especially during that time period. >> yes. >> it's a beacon of hope and it tells us what we can do. >> and the cool thing about her was not only did she realize that there was a need and she filled it, she wasn't content on just being successful on her own and look at me at the top of the mountain, no, she brought women up. >> yes. >> talk about that part of her personality. >> she was about female entrepreneurship, and sister hood and making black women feel beautiful. and that was empowerment. >> yeah. >> giving them the means to be their own bosses i mean, that's what we all aspire to do. >> what i was reading, she seems like mary kay cosmetics before mary kay she had the model, empowered people and her goal was to helpo >> in one of the episodes she says it seems like men

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and it is signed by madame c.j. walker. and to date, there is still no law that is an anti-lynching law in america. history is often based on the stories that people tell. and the facts and documents and the papers that are culminated to get to that point, but what makes history so poignant is who tells the story, and we often hear people's stories by people who are not them, and it is important to hear african american women stories, women stories, told by african american women, and african american men. so to elevate an iconic person like madame walker from soundbite history, from two hair grafts, it is important because her legacy not only touches all women, and it is american history as well as black history, it reframes her life as a woman. she was more than just a pretty face, she was more than somebody's wife. she was the entrepreneur. she was the president. she was the chairman. she was the philanthropist. she was the activist. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the na