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

by Shennette Garrett-Scott

Book Overview

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.

Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account...

• 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"