Important Vocabulary Terms
Emporium – department store
Empower – to enable or to authorize
Entrepreneur- a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business
Independent Order of St. Luke – fraternal burial organization that administered to sick and aged. It encouraged individual self-help and integrity among the members.
Jackson Ward – African American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Home of Maggie Walker located at 110 East Leigh Street.
St. Luke Herald - newspaper
President – someone appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of people; chief officer Mrs. Walker was the first African American female president of a bank in the United States.
Second Street – business center of Jackson Ward. Nicknamed – “The Deuce”
Deposit – to put money in a bank or financial account
Segregation – the separation of people, usually based on race or religion
Artifacts - material evidence that people of long ago left behind
Independent – self sustained
Desegregation - abolishment of racial segregation
Integration - full equality of people of all races in the use of public facilities and services
Sources: http://www.nps.gov/mawa/forteachers/upload/Eyes-and-Ears.pdf
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/frameworks/history_socialscience_framewks/2008/2008_final/framewks_virginia_studies.pdf
http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk/pages/resources/for_your_subject/accounting_and_finance/types_of_information_available/reference_materials
Empower – to enable or to authorize
Entrepreneur- a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business
Independent Order of St. Luke – fraternal burial organization that administered to sick and aged. It encouraged individual self-help and integrity among the members.
Jackson Ward – African American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Home of Maggie Walker located at 110 East Leigh Street.
St. Luke Herald - newspaper
President – someone appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of people; chief officer Mrs. Walker was the first African American female president of a bank in the United States.
Second Street – business center of Jackson Ward. Nicknamed – “The Deuce”
Deposit – to put money in a bank or financial account
Segregation – the separation of people, usually based on race or religion
Artifacts - material evidence that people of long ago left behind
Independent – self sustained
Desegregation - abolishment of racial segregation
Integration - full equality of people of all races in the use of public facilities and services
Sources: http://www.nps.gov/mawa/forteachers/upload/Eyes-and-Ears.pdf
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/frameworks/history_socialscience_framewks/2008/2008_final/framewks_virginia_studies.pdf
http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk/pages/resources/for_your_subject/accounting_and_finance/types_of_information_available/reference_materials