In the late 1800s Maggie Walker an African American community leader helped establish a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients a community center and an educational loan fund among other humanitarian projects. She was also the first woman in the United States to become founder and president of a chartered bank
Pressure from businesses and stores convinced FDR to try making Thanksgiving a week earlier than usual during the Great Depression. However, the change caused so much confusion and even anger that Congress passed a law declaring Thanksgiving would always be the fourth Thursday in November.
