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The Mutual Aid Nation: Susu, Black Wall Street, Mound Bayou & Black Banks
What did we build in the fifteen years we were actually free? In this episode, Mr. Black History traces the mutual aid nation — the Black economic world built on trust when banks wouldn't serve us, insurers robbed us, and the government looked away.
From the West African susu — neighbors pooling money on nothing but reputation — to the Freedman's Savings Bank and its three million dollars in vanished Black savings. From Mound Bayou, the all-Black Mississippi town, to Maggie Lena Walker's St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, to the Black Wall Street they burned in Tulsa in 1921 and the Freedom Farm…
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