Historic Black Enterprise Magazine Covers: Ernesta Procope, August 1974

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For the first time ever, BE devotes an entire issue to expose the unique challenges as well as celebrate the achievements of black female executives and entrepreneurs.

The cover subject: Ernesta Procope, known as “the First Lady of Wall Street, is founder and former CEO of E.G. Bowman Co. Inc., the first and largest minority-owned insurance brokerage firm in new York’s financial district.