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She was the first black woman to establish and service. President of a bank. Let's talk about her. And fourteen years old she joined the local council of the Independent Order of St. Luke. This was a business network that promoted black economic independence, promote itself, help, and really served as a hub for black people. She continued working with them and they. He graduated from the Richmond Colored Normal School in eighteen eighty three, and this school was part of the segregated Richmond, Virginia Public school system. After high school she went and taught at the Valley School, and she made a whopping thirty five dollars a month. She can tell you as a teacher for three years until she got married and then her employment at that school had to end because the school had a poly osi that they could not employ any married women. So she continued her work with the Order, and she started out as a delegate and then ended up with a leadership position to the right. Worthy Grand Secretary. This happened in eighteen, ninety nine. A couple years after that, and nineteen o. Two, she expanded the reach of the organization by publishing the first ever newspaper paper from the organization called the St. Luke Herald. She really wanted to shine a light on black issues and people within the community. But she didn't stop there because a year after that, her desire to make sure that black people paid off their homes, own their homes and was able to build generational wealth. The kinda reality. She chartered a bank. This bank was called the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. Richmond, Virginia's first black architect, Charles Thaddeus Russell, helped design the building in nearly twenty years after establishing the bank. She said that the bank held six hundred and forty five black families pay off their homes. Canada, retiring nineteen thirty two, and the bank ended up being renamed to the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company, but remained a black owned institution. Her name was Maggie L. Walker, a business leader, bank president and pioneer, the first black woman to establish a bank. Happy Women's History Month to Maggie in Happy Women's History Month to all of you share, believe, inspire blacks, be.
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