page_title: Annie Turnbo Malone
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Turnbo Malone / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Diploma Day at Poro College, 1920
context_page_description: Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. She is thought to be one of the first African American women to become a millionaire. In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women.
context_section_description: In 1903 she married Nelson Pope; the couple had divorced by 1907.
  On April 28, 1914, Annie Turnbo married Aaron Eugene Malone, a former teacher and religious book salesman. Turnbo Malone, by then worth well over a million dollars, built a five-story multipurpose facility.
caption: Diploma Day at Poro College, 1920[18]
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