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Maggie Lena Walker
The first woman president of a bank in the United States, Maggie Lena Walker founded her successful bank in Richmond in 1903. She also was involved in the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the NAACP. Her large home in Richmond is now a national historic site.
Maggie Lena Walker
Profile of Maggie Lena Walker, first woman bank president,and African American business woman of Richmond, Virginia.
Maggie Lena Walker Pictures
Pictures of Maggie Lena Walker, African American business executive and bank president.
Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker & the Independent Order of Saint Luke
This 1989 article by Elsa Barkley Brown seeks to re-include Maggie Lena Walker into the feminist story of history, as an example of black women's history that is neither just women's history nor black history: "women's issues may be race issues, and race issues may be women's issues."