Garrett-Scott, Shennette, <br/><br/>
Banking on freedom  black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal / 
Shennette Garrett-Scott. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (288 pages). 
 - Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism .
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231545211 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in finance--History.--United States<br/>African American bankers--History.<br/>African American women--History.<br/>Women bankers--History.--United States<br/>African American banks--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG181  / .B365 2019