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Maggie Lena Walker

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Life of Maggie L Walker Walker

In 19 o four, walker helped organize a boycot of the virginia passenger and power company in april of that year. Virginia had passed a law allowing street car companies to decide whether to segregate their cars. Walker kept taking on new leadership rolls, including becoming president of the richmond council of colored o n which was founded in 19 12. But in 19 15, the walker family experienced a horrific tragedy, and were going to talk about that after we first take a sponsor break. I am one of thousands of women with metostatic breast cancer, or nbc, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

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