EXPLOREMAGGIE L. WALKER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site

TYPE
historic-site
ESTABLISHED
1978
AREA
1 acres
STATE
VA
ECOSYSTEM
Forest

The Richmond home of Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first woman in American history to found and serve as president of a chartered bank, the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, in 1903. Walker was also a prominent civil rights leader and newspaper editor in the Jim Crow South, building Black economic power through her fraternal organization, the Independent Order of St. Luke.

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