Mary T. Washington Wylie

CTL-E-1369 · Person · 1931/1939 (firm founded, disputed)-2005

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The first Black woman CPA in the United States (1943), Washington trained under Arthur Wilson at Binga State Bank, founded her own South Side firm (1931 or 1939 — disputed), and built Washington, Pittman & McKeever into a training pipeline that made Chicago the national center of Black CPA concentration.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-044; source research type(s): person.

Sources

Northwestern Magazine; Black Enterprise; ICPAS
Black Enterprise; Northwestern Magazine; Journal of Accountancy
Northwestern Magazine; Black Enterprise

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