Rosa Lula Barnes

Rosa Lula Barnes (August 22, 1868 – 1917) was a grocer, real estate investor, and community leader in the United States.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

Barnes was born in Huntsville, Alabama on August 22, 1868, and educated at Huntsville Normal and Industrial Institute. She moved to Savannah, Georgia.^[1] She married Richard Barnes in 1884 and opened a grocery store on Price Street running the business for ten years until it closed in 1893.^[3] During this time, she invested in real state and stock as well as serving as the Director to the Wage Earner’s Bank of Savannah and the Afro-American Company.^[3] She was a leader in the Order of Calanthe, the women's auxiliary organization to the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.^[1]^[2]

Her husband died in 1911.^[1] She died in 1917.^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Richardson, Clement (June 21, 1919). "The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race". National Publishing Company – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b "Celebrating Black History: Rosa Lula Barnes". February 26, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jones, Jae (2021-09-13). "Rosa Lula Barnes: Leading Businesswoman and Social Worker". Black Then. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
^ Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du (June 21, 1917). "The Crisis". Crisis Publishing Company – via Google Books.

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