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Author Garrett-Scott, Shennette, author.

Title Banking on freedom : black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal / Shennette Garrett-Scott.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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
Summary 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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Subject Women in finance -- United States -- History.
Women in finance.
United States.
History.
African American bankers -- History.
African American bankers.
African American women -- History.
African American women.
Women bankers -- United States -- History.
Women bankers.
African American banks -- History.
African American banks.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Garrett-Scott, Shennette. Banking on freedom. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231183901 (DLC) 2018045341 (OCoLC)1055566354
ISBN 9780231545211 (electronic book)
0231545215 (electronic book)
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