RICHMOND, Va. — A monument honouring African-American civil rights advocate Maggie Walker has been unveiled in Richmond, Virginia. A ceremony was held Saturday morning on what would have been the Richmond entrepreneur’s 153rd birthday. Walker was the first African-American woman to charter a bank in the United States in 1903. The statue is in downtown Richmond at Broad and Adams streets. Mayor Levar Stoney says the effort to build the monument has been in the works for almost 20 years.

Source: National Post July 15, 2017 19:41 UTC