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Since March is Women’s History Month, we’ll be highlighting women inventors and women innovators who deserve their place in history. In 1928 it was hard enough for a woman to get a job, but for African Americans the unemployment number was twice as high. But one black woman who was employed was Marjorie Joyner. She worked for a self-educated businesswoman named Madame C. J. Walker, the first African American woman millionaire.