William Washington Browne

While Maggie Walker gets most of the limelight in this town, how many people know who William Washington Browne is?  A part of a generation of pioneers born to slavery, he founded the True Reformers Bank in 1888, not quite 23 years after the Civil War…

While Maggie Walker gets most of the limelight in this town, how many people know who William Washington Browne is?  A part of a generation of pioneers born to slavery, he founded the True Reformers Bank in 1888, not quite 23 years after the Civil War ended.  Here’s an excerpt from a new Richmond blog, History […]

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