Ernesta G. Procope

Ernesta G. Procope (born 1931) is an American investment banker and insurance executive. She founded the commercial insurance brokerage form E. G. Bowman, Inc. in 1953, naming it after her husband who had died the previous year.[1] In 1977, E. G. Bowman became the first African American owned business to be located on Wall Street.[2]

References
  1. Jessie Carney Smith (2012). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Visible Ink Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-57859-424-5.
  2. Ernesta G. Procope, The HistoryMakers, June 13, 2006. Accessed July 5, 2020.
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