Ernesta G. Procope
Ernesta Gertrude Procope (nee Forster) (2 September 1923 – 30 November 2021) was an American investment banker and insurance executive. Ernesta Gertrude Forster was born on Feb. 9, 1923, in Brooklyn and was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant (note 1). She founded the commercial insurance brokerage firm E. G. Bowman, Inc. in 1953, naming it after her husband who had died the previous year. In 1977, E. G. Bowman became the first African American owned business to be located on Wall Street. She was also the chairperson of the board of directors at Adelphi University. An investigation of the  school's finances showed that it was a customer of E. G. Bowman. For this conflict of interest, she, the president, and sixteen other members of the board were removed from their posts. She died on 30 November 2021, in Queens, New York, at the age of 98. Note 1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/business/ernesta-procope-dead.html