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The first woman to start a bank — a black woman — finally gets her due in the Confederacy’s capital
“Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond. She was also the daughter of a former slave….
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