TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garrett-Scott,Shennette
TI  - Banking on freedom: black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal 
T2  - Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
SN  - 9780231545211
AV  - HG181 .B365 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Women in finance
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - African American bankers
KW  - African American women
KW  - Women bankers
KW  - African American banks
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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