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Also by Ruth P. Watson:

A Right Worthy Woman, February 2024
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A Right Worthy Woman, June 2023
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Strawberry Spring, May 2019
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A Right Worthy Woman
Ruth P. Watson

Atria Books
June 2023
On Sale: June 13, 2023
Featuring: Maggie Lena Walker
304 pages
ISBN: 1668003023
EAN: 9781668003022
Kindle: B0BHTRQ752
Hardcover / e-Book
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Paperback (February 2024)

Women's Fiction Historical

In the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank in the United States.

Maggie Lena Walker was ambitious and unafraid. Her childhood in 19th-century Virginia helping her mother with her laundry service opened her eyes to the overwhelming discrepancy between the Black residents and her mother’s affluent white clients. She vowed to not only secure the same kind of home and finery for herself, but she would also help others in her community achieve the same.

With her single-minded determination, Maggie buckled down and went from schoolteacher to secretary-treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke, founder of a newspaper, a bank, and a department store where Black customers were treated with respect. With the help of influential friends like W.E.B. DuBois and Mary McLeod, she revolutionized Richmond in ways that are still felt today. Now, her rich, full story is revealed in this stirring and intimate novel.

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