This Week in Black History April 26, 1903

Maggie L. Walker

Maggie L. Walker, a crusading businesswoman, activist and newspaper editor, founds the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and Trust Company in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the first woman — Black or white — to head a U.S. bank. 

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