Black Fact = (1867) Maggie Lena Walker

Black Fact = 1867 (July 15) – Maggie Lena Walker, business and civic leader, was born in Richmond, VA, on this date in 1867. Walker was the nation’s first black woman to head a bank. Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, VA, in 1903. #theraydiotwins 

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Black Fact =(1923)Bessie Smith

Black Fact = 1923 (Feb. 16) – On this day Bessie Smith makes her first recording, “Down Hearted Blues,” which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia ...