“Good Lord, I told you I would do the dishes grandma you don't have to remind me every two seconds. Wow, the black ladies in your days must have been going through it given as those were the only jobs they had. If they weren't covered in dishwasher or soot then they had back pain from all the laundry.” Ada complained. Well Ada that was before Maggie Lena Walker came into our lives. Granted our backs and hands looked way older than us before she arrived. Born in 1864, Maggie was a force to be reckoned with. She started as a teacher in 1883 with her teaching career ending after she married her husband, Armstead Walker Jr. in 1886. According to Virginia law then, married women were expected to be homemakers and not teachers. Tough times I tell you. Maggie didn't let those stereotypes define her even when she lost her husband. Worked as a grand secretary of the St Luke order in 1899 and before we knew it, she was a bank owner in 1903, when she founded the St Luke Penny Savings Bank. First black woman to own a bank, scratch that, FIRST WOMAN TO OWN A BANK!! At that time, white-owned banks did not accept deposits from blacks, terrible business decision on their part if you ask me, as this advanced the number of people flooding aunt Maggie's bank. She didn't just grow her bank, she hired and trained black women. She also provided over 600 home and business loans to black families by 1920. Walker mainly employed African-American women as staff because she felt they were doubly oppressed as women and as black.“Who is so oppressed as the Negro woman? Who is so circumscribed and hemmed in the race of life, in the struggle for bread, meat and clothing as the Negro woman?”, she said. See, she was really looking out for us. Walker was both an advocate for civil rights and women's rights as she was a member of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and on the board of trustees for several women's groups some of them being; National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the Virginia Industrial School for Girls. Walker advocated voting rights for women, arguing that equal pay for their work would not become reality until “women force Capital to hear them at the ballot box.” “Damn, I guess that's the kind of thing Issa Rae meant when she said rooting for everybody black” Exactly that's why the Washington Bee 1911 referred to her as a woman of fine presence and an able speaker who neither wastes nor minces words and is quite convincing in her discourse. For she was that and so much more.