Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker

Growing up in the heart of the Confederacy, Maggie Lena Walker started work as a laundress at age 9. At 16, she was working as a teacher and learning accounting. Eventually she lead the Independent of Order of St. Luke and founded a bank, a newspaper, and a retail store, creating jobs and opportunities for many women and other African Americans. Professor Tony Mayo discusses Walker’s remarkable legacy of firsts.

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