Entrepeneur Annie Malone

Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone (August 9, 1869—May 10, 1957) is recorded as the U.S.’s first Black female millionaire based on reports of $14 million in assets held in 1920 from her beauty and cosmetic enterprise, headquartered in St. Louis and Chicago. She was an African-American businesswoman, educator, inventor and philanthropist. In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded Poro, a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women.