Maggie Walker started a department store allowing Black customers to shop with dignity: enter through the main doors instead of a side entrance, try on clothing, to eat at lunch counters and she hired exclusively Black women to work as clerks. She became the first Black woman to establish and become president of a bank in the United States—the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond.
@AfricanArchives If we can better inspire and understand the reason why injustice against Black people has been normalized we can then better understand how our this perpetuates racism in our present culture. @BET @tntdrama @Iam360Wise #ShiftTheCulture #NAACP
@AfricanArchives Maggie Walker was a trailblazer for Black empowerment in business and finance. Her legacy continues to inspire and uplift communities.
@AfricanArchives that’s what counted as black back then? She doesn’t look black. She looks just like any other generic plus size white woman i’ve seen from that era.