Maggie Lena Walker: Black Entrepreneur | Making Black America

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Making Black America Henry Louis Gates Jr Henry Louis Gates Skip Gates Maggie Lena Walker African American business Black entrepreneurs entrepreneurs Black-owned businesses Black economics Black industrial life women entrepreneurs banker bank president North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company black busines WETA Black history Black America United States U.S. history us history history social studies American history Independent Order of St Luke Order of St Luke Black banks African American banks Penny Savings Bank Richmond Virginia Jim Crow Jim Crow South
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History-Social Science
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Maggie Lena Walker: Black Entrepreneur | Making Black America

Learn about Maggie Lena Walker in this clip from MAKING BLACK AMERICA. Walker was an African American businesswoman, and in 1903 she became both the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president. This lesson will expand upon this with an activity to introduce students to many Black entrepreneurs from the golden age of Black business (1900 - 1930).

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