Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal

(Part of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism Series)

by Shennette Garrett-Scott

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Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231183917

ISBN13:9780231183918

Release Date:May 2019

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal

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