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Mattel Creations/Madam Walker Family Archives/A’Lelia Bundles. All Rights Reserved. Madam C.J. Walker, the primary documented self-made woman millionaire, will soon have a doll in her honor as a part of the Barbie Signature Inspiring Women collection. She is the newest historical figure to be recognized by Mattel, the toy company that manufactures Barbie. Walker is thought for making a successful line of hair care products and cosmetics for Black women and using the fortune she created to do significant philanthropic work. Her story inspired a Netflix original movie, Self Made, that showed her transformation from a farm laborer and laundress into certainly one of the 20 th century’s most successful women entrepreneurs. Walker’s great-great granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, is hopeful that the doll (with...