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A woman with this married surname created a penny savings bank in Richmond to aid entrepreneurs as part of the Order of Saint Luke. A socialite with this surname convened Harlem Renaissance (10[1])notables at the Villa Lewaro and Dark Tower. In 1829, a Boston-based freedman of this surname called for the immediate abolition of slavery, by violence if needed, in his namesake Appeal. A socialite (-5[1])named A’Lelia was the daughter of an entrepreneur with this surname whose company employed thousands of agents to sell “fifty-cent boxes” of combs, (10[1])pomades, and a “wonderful hair grower”; that (-5[1])entrepreneur was a former laundress born with the name Sarah Breedlove. For 10 points, give this married surname of the US’s first self-made Black woman millionaire, (10[1])known as “Madame C. J.” ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Walker [accept Maggie Lena Walker or A’Lelia Walker or David Walker or Madame C. J. Walker] (Maggie Walker is the namesake of the notable Virginia high school.)
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