Banking on freedom black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal / Shennette Garrett-Scott.
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TextSeries: Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type: - text
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- HG181 .B365 2019
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Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "I Am Yet Waitin": African American Women and Free Labor Banking Experiments in the Emancipation-Era South, 1860s-1900; 2. "Who Is So Helpless as the Negro Woman?": The Independent Order of St. Luke and the Quest for Economic Security, 1856-1902; 3. "Let Us Have a Bank": St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Economic Activism, and State Regulation, 1903 to World War I; 4. Rituals of Risk and Respectability: Gendered Economic Practices, Credit, and Debt to World War I
5. "A Good, Strong, Hustling Woman": Financing the New Negro in the New Era, 1920-1929Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Shennette Garrett-Scott explores 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 of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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