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Maggie Walker started a department store allowing Black customers to shop with dignity: enter through the main doors instead of a side entrance, try on clothing, to eat at lunch counters and she hired exclusively Black women to work as clerks.
09:12 PM - Apr 14, 2024
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Tinka Nichols
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She became the first Black woman to establish and become president of a bank in the United States—the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond.
09:12 PM - Apr 14, 2024
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randy gold
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When did this happen?
05:58 PM - Apr 15, 2024
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Thery G
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Looks like the store opened in 1905.
https://www.pbs.org/video/...
08:17 PM - Apr 21, 2024
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