Mary T. Washington
Age: 99
Summary: the first
black woman to become a certified public accountant who earned a
bachelor's degree in business from Northwestern University in 1941 and
started her first accounting firm in her basement while a student whose
story was detailed in a 2002 book entitled A White-Collar Profession.
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Born: April 21, 1906
Died: July 2, 2005
Location: Chicago, Illinois
