ON THIS DAY: July 15 Marks The Birth Of Banking Pioneer

Maggie Lena Walker was born July 15, 1964. Walker was a visionary entrepreneur, civil rights advocate, and neighborhood organizer in Richmond, Virginia. Honored by the Nationwide Girls’s Historical past Museum, she is widely known as the primary African American girl to constitution and function president of a U.S. financial institution, utilizing monetary empowerment to champion civil rights.

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