John Hervey Wheeler, Influential Civil Rights Leader
The KAZI Book Review guest was Brandon K. Winford, author of JOHN HERVEY WHEELER, BLACK BANKING, AND THE ECONOMIC STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. John Hervey Wheeler, who lived from 1908 to 1978 was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders, yet very few are familiar with him. In 1952 when he became president of one of the oldest black banks in America, Mechanics & Farmers Bank in Durham, North Carolina, he urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and…
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