Black History Facts for Today by Yenoba.com

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.

A. J. Hayne, a black man who was captain of the Arkansas militia, was assassinated on this date in 1869.

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