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March 20, 2021

Why America’s First Black Female Bank Founder Is Still Owed A Great Debt

By Maggie McGrath, Forbes Staff
and Margherita Beale, Forbes Staff

More significantly, Walker correctly anticipated her bank’s halo effect. “Through all of the work that she did, it was Black women who were in the offices,” her great-great granddaughter Liza Mickens says. “She was the largest employer of Black women in the city of Richmond.”

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