See full review on "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" website:

Maggie Walker was the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first female in the United States to own a bank — one of few to survive the Great Depression. Born in Virginia one year before the end of the Civil War, Walker smashed every barrier constraining Black women in the Jim Crow South. Her extensive contributions to the formation of Richmond’s “Black Wall Street” are brought to vivid life in “A Right Worthy Woman,” Ruth P. Watson’s luminous work of historical fiction chronicling the trailblazer’s life.

It’s impossible not to admire a person as indomitable as Maggie Lena Mitchell Walker. Watson enlivens this powerful leader who came to be known as “the race woman” in a narrative that opens in 1876 when Walker is 12 years old. In an era when “colored girls were not to speak without being spoken to,” Walker boldly asks her mother’s boss how she, too, can become rich...

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