# Maggie Lena Walker

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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such…

A Toast to Women in Fintech – Fintech for Good

Recorded live from the Fintech Penthouse at Money 2020 in Las Vegas, this special edition of Humans of Fintech honors the past, confronts the present, and reimagines the future of financial systems. Host Nicole Casperson opens the night by grounding the room in a powerful truth. Women have been sha…

Sheela Na Gig Episode 62: Maggie Lena Walker

Trailblazing American pioneer Maggie Lena Walker shattered barriers as the first woman to charter and lead a bank. A bold visionary and community champion, she devoted her life to expanding opportunity and economic power for African Americans, advancing the rights of women, and uplifting people wit…

142: Don't F**k With Our Money: The Maggie Lena Walker Story

Meet Maggie Lena Walker, the first woman in the United States to charter and own a bank and the architect behind one of the most powerful economic ecosystems in American history. Born in 1864, in the final year of the Civil War, Maggie survived Reconstruction and Jim Crow by building infrastructure…

Celebrating Black Financial History & The Blueprint for Generational Wealth

This week on the Proactive Woman Podcast, host Joyce Palmer delivers a powerful solo episode dedicated to Black History Month, focusing specifically on our financial history. From the resilience of enslaved people who traded goods and saved for their freedom, to the booming success of Black Wall S…

Faith-Fueled Pioneers

In this inspiring episode, join Erica as she celebrates Women's History Month by exploring the faith, courage, and strategies of pioneering women like Maggie Lena Walker, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Madam C.J. Walker. Listeners are encouraged to pursue their God-sized dreams with authenticity and fait…

The story of social insurance (With Victoria Bateman)

Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this conversation, Peter Mansfield and Dr. Victoria Bateman explore the development of social insurance, its historical context, and its evolution into the welfare state. They discuss the differences between social insur…

04 Stories of Women & Money: Women's History Month Edition

March is Women's History Month and this episode tells the stories of five historic women in business and five historic legislations regarding women and finance. Eliza Lucas Pinckney - first female entrepreneur on record Rebecca Lukens - first female industrialist Maggie Lena Walker - first female …

Defier

Have you ever been told you couldn’t do something? She was told time and time again that she could not, should not, will not, but she did not let that stop her. She chartered a bank, launched a boycott, scared some powerful men and then designed her own wheelchair! She didn’t do some things, she di…

Maggie Lena Walker - Leah's Pick for Financial Health & Security Month

Leah continues Financial Health & Security Month with the first Black woman to establish a bank in the United States. Maggie Lena Walker not only opened the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank, but she was the first Black woman to be president of a bank in the United States. Learn more about the financia…