RICHMOND, Va. -- Detectives are investigating vandalism at the grave site of Maggie L. Walker in the Evergreen Cemetery in Richmond. The number "777" was spray painted in green paint on the stone ...
In 1903, Maggie L. Walker opens the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the first Black woman in America to charter a bank and become a bank president. — Source: Maggie L.
Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934), born in Richmond, VA in the final years of the Civil War, became the first African American female bank president in the United States when she founded the St. Luke ...
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