#Maggie Lena Walker

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On November 2, 1903, Business and civic leader, Maggie Lena Walker opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank at the St. Luke Headquarters Building at 900 St. James Street, Richmond, Virginia. While the music played and speeches were given, nearly 300 eager customers, many of them members of the IOSL, waited patiently to open bank accounts. While some people deposited more than one hundred dollars, others started accounts with just a few dollars, including one person who deposited just 31 cents. At the end of the day, the bank had 280 deposits, totaling over $8,000, and sold $1,247.00 worth of stock, bringing the total to $9,340.44. She hoped for deposits exceeding $75,000, but she was pleased with the first day’s success. At the same time, she recognized the hard work ahead to find success and security for the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Round 2 is officially over!

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Round 3 will begin on Wednesday, May 22nd

The winners of Round 2:

Maude Adams

Julie Andrews

Hermione Baddeley

Pearl Bailey

Josephine Baker

Anne Bancroft

Tallulah Bankhead

Theda Bara

Claire Bloom

Diahann Carroll

Lina Cavalieri

Helen Chandler

Claudette Colbert

Constance Collier

Gladys Cooper

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Ruby Dee

Stephanie Deste

Marie Doro

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Ethel Merman

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Rita Moreno

Pola Negri

Julie Newmar

Nichelle Nichols

Aida Overton Walker

Bernadette Peters

Lily Pons

Chita Rivera

Ginger Rogers

Diana Sands

Maggie Smith

Emily Stevens

Barbra Streisand

Yma Sumac

Hilda Trevelyan

Fannie Ward

Elisabeth Welch

Mae West

Anna May Wong

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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Today In History

Maggie Lena Walker, business and civic leader, was born in Richmond, VA, on this date July 15, 1867.

Walker was the nation’s first African American woman to head a bank. Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, VA, in 1903.

She devoted her life to civil rights advancement, economic empowerment, and educational opportunities for Jim Crow-era African Americans and women.

As a bank president, newspaper editor, and fraternal leader, Walker served as an inspiration of pride and progress.

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"Carry On: The Life and Legacy of Maggie Lena Walker"

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February is Black History Month and for every Friday this month we will feature a National Park that explores the deep and complex history of the African American experience. This week we feature Maggie L. Walker NHS. When she was a teenager, Maggie Lena Walker joined the...

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How Citi is Paving the Way for HBCU Grads and Black Professionals in Finance

Ever since Maggie Lena Walker established and presided over the first bank to service Black organizations, Black Americans have been shaping the history of finance. 100 years later, people of color (POC) are still making contributions that leave everlasting impacts on the industry.  Although a lot of progress has been made for POC in the banking and finance space, they are still at a…

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Words of wisdom from Maggie Lena Walker, an American businesswoman: "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." Embrace growth, speak up, and surround yourself with those who uplift and support you. 💪 #MaggieLenaWalker #businesswoman...

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On August 20, 1901, she delivered a now-famous speech before the Independent Order’s council in which she declared her vision to take the organization to greater heights by creating a conglomerate: a bank chartered and operated by the order’s members, a newspaper to herald the good news of the order, and a department store run by black employees and geared to black consumers with goods they wanted at more affordable prices than those of white retailers. It was through this consolidation of communication, money, and industry that the African American community could become economically independent, mobilized, and self-sustaining. Within five years, Walker guided each of these enterprises to fruition.

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The Saint Luke Emporium, the retail arm of Walker’s three-part conglomerate that offered African American women opportunities for work and the Black community access to cheaper goods, struggled from its beginnings. As a result of organized opposition from white retailers and reluctance from Black consumers who continued to patronize white businesses (perhaps fearing repercussions if they did not), the emporium could not make money and was forced to close its doors in 1911.

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Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934) •

Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934) • — Read on www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/walker-maggie-lena-1867-1934/

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Maggie Lena Walker (July 15, 1864 – December 15, 1934) was a teacher and businesswoman. She was the first African American woman to charter a bank and serve as its president in the US. She achieved success with the vision to make tangible improvements in the way of life for African Americans and women. Disabled by paralysis and limited to a wheelchair, she became an example for people with disabilities.

Along with her leadership of the Independent Order of St. Luke, she was involved with the NAACP, The National Association of Colored Women, the National Urban League and National Negro Business League, and the United Order of Tents.

Her restored and furnished home in the historic Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia has been designated a National Historic Site, operated by the National Park Service.

She was born and raised in Richmond, the daughter of Elizabeth Draper and Eccles Cuthbert. Her mother, a former enslaved was an assistant cook at the Van Lew estate, where she met Cuthbert, an Irish American journalist for the New York Herald.

In 1902, she published a newspaper for the organization, St. Luke Herald. She chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank’s leadership included several female board members. She agreed to serve as chairman of the board of directors when the bank merged with two other Richmond banks to become The Consolidated Bank and Trust Company, which grew to serve generations of Richmonders as an African-American-owned institution.

She married Armstead Walker Jr. (1886–1914), a brick contractor. They adopted a daughter, Polly Anderson, and had three sons. They purchased a home in 1904 at 1101⁄2 East Leigh Street, within the African American Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond. It was enlarged over the years to accommodate their children’s families. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #zetaphibeta

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Round 1 is officially over!

Congratulations to the actresses who made it to Round 2!

Round 2 will begin on Saturday, May 4th

The winners of Round 1:

Maude Adams

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Julie Andrews

Angela Baddeley

Hermione Baddeley

Lauren Bacall

Olga Baclanova

Pearl Bailey

Josephine Baker

Lucille Ball

Anne Bancroft

Tallulah Bankhead

Theda Bara

Mona Barrie

Jessie Bateman

Polly Bergen

Claire Bloom

Mrs Patrick Campbell

Diahann Carroll

Lina Cavalieri

Helen Chandler

Geraldine Chaplin

Ruth Chatterton

Claudette Colbert

Constance Collier

Gladys Cooper

Katharine Cornell

Phyllis Dare

Zena Dare

Ruby Dee

Judi Dench

Stephanie Deste

Marie Doro

Geraldine Farrar

Maude Fealy

Edwige Feuillère

Susanna Foster

Trixie Friganza

Jane Froman

Eva Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Mary Garden

Greer Garson

Dusolina Giannini

Hermione Gingold

Dorothy Gish

Lillian Gish

Frances Greer

Mata Hari

Dolores Hart

Olivia de Havilland

Jill Haworth

Audrey Hepburn

Libby Holman

Lena Horne

Sally Ann Howes

Ethel Irving

Diane Keaton

Lisa Kirk

Eartha Kitt

Angela Landbury

Carol Lawrence

Vivien Leigh

Lotte Lenya

Beatrice Lillie

Bambi Linn

Gillian Lynne

Heather MacRae

Jayne Mansfield

Mary Martin

Jessie Matthews

Siobhán McKenna

Meng Xiaodong

Helen Menken

Ethel Merman

Cléo de Mérode

Evelyn Millard

Liza Minnelli

Rita Moreno

Odette Myrtil

Pola Negri

Julie Newmar

Nichelle Nichols

Maureen O’Sullivan

Aida Overton Walker

Anna Pavlova

Bernadette Peters

Lily Pons

Rosa Ponselle

Lee Remick

Diana Rigg

Thelma Ritter

Chita Rivera

Ginger Rogers

Lillian Russell

Rosalind Russell

Diana Sands

Lizabeth Scott

Maggie Smith

Emily Stevens

Susan Strasberg

Barbra Streisand

Yma Sumac

Inga Swenson

Laurette Taylor

Hilda Trevelyan

Monique Van Vooren

Fannie Ward

Ethel Warwick

Elisabeth Welch

Mae West

Anna May Wong

Diana Wynyard

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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Today In History

Maggie Lena Walker, business and civic leader, was born in Richmond, VA, on this date July 15, 1864.

Walker was the nation’s first African American woman to head a bank. Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, VA, in 1903.

She devoted her life to civil rights advancement, economic empowerment, and educational opportunities for Jim Crow-era African Americans and women.

As a bank president, newspaper editor, and fraternal leader, Walker served as an inspiration of pride and progress.

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Lesson 37: "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Born to formerly-enslaved parents at the height of the Civil War in 1864 Richmond, Maggie Lena Walker joined a fraternal benevolent organization --the Independent Order of St. Luke (IOSL). The self-help organization promoted humanitarian community causes and ministered to the needy. Walker became inextricably linked to IOSL, assuming various leadership roles, among them creating and publishing its newspaper. She became its national leader in 1899, and from there she ultimately founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank; the first woman --of ANY race-- to charter a bank in the United States. In the rigidly-segregated South, such an accomplishment was unheard of, but the bank quickly became a powerful representation of self-help principles. The Penny Savings Bank not only attracted adults (primarily black women), but Walker also worked to appeal to children by encouraging them to save their money. Parallel to the bank and the newspaper, Walker also founded a department store, St. Luke Emporium. Among her employees Walker encouraged a strict attitude of thrift, respectability, and punctuality. All of these endeavors maintained a focus on community advancement rather than individual success.

Read more about the history of St. Luke's Penny Savings Bank at: https://www.nps.gov/mawa/the-st-luke-penny-savings-bank.htm

In 1915, Walker’s husband was tragically killed by her son, who had taken his father for a burglar. Her husband’s passing left her in charge of a large estate. She continued working for the Order of St. Luke's but also held leadership positions in other civic organizations, including National Association of Colored Women (NACW). A number of ailments later in life confined her to a wheelchair, but Walker continued to push for greater rights and recognition for people of color; in her final years she was known throughout Richmond as The Lame Lioness.