Mary Ellen Pleasant

Good Morning POU! How did a former slave who came to be known as the California Mother of Civil Rights amass millions in the mid 1800s?? Mary Ellen Pleasant Described as “a Rosa Parks, a Martin Luther King and a Malcolm X all rolled into one,” Mary Ellen Pleasant reportedly amassed some $30 million in real estate and investments with her *ahummm* partner Thomas Bell … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: 19th Century Hustlers Week