Olivia educates us about the driven and entrepreneurial Maggie Lena Walker, who was a teacher, started her own newspaper, and the first woman to own a bank in the US. Until the early 2000s, Consolidated Bank and Trust Company was the oldest black-owned and black-run bank in the US.
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MAGGIE LENA WALKER (1864-1934)
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/walker-maggie-lena-1867-1934/
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