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September 13

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A Black American woman became the first in the United States to charter a bank and serve as its president—in 1903.

101 & Counting Amazing Fact 009: Maggie Lena Walker — the first African American woman to charter a bank and serve as its president, founding the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia in 1903.
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