Episode 120: Shennette Garrett-Scott, author of BANKING ON FREEDOM: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
BANKING ON FREEDOM is the first full-length history of finance capitalism that centers black women and the banking institutions and networks they built from the eve of the Civil War to the Great Depression. Black women played essential roles in black communities’ efforts to use finance to carve out possibilities within U.S. capitalism and society. In particular she shares the story of Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to organize a bank and lead a bank. In 1903 she organized the St. Luke Penny Bank in Richmond, Virginia.
An Associate Professor of History and African American Studies…
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