On this day in 1864, Maggie Lena Walker was born to enslaved parents. She became the 1st woman to charter a US bank. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank helped African American customers in the South help themselves when public institutions would not. #WeTheMen www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
Biography: Maggie Lena WalkerEntrepreneur Maggie Lena Walker transformed black business practices and gained national prominence as the first woman to own a bank in the United States. Read more at womenshistory.org.www.womenshistory.org
