History of Freedman's Savings and Trust Company in Washington, D.C.

About Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company in Washington, D.C.

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “A deep accounting of how America got to a poi

Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garret

Generally, books addressing the early history of African American banks have done so either within the larger construct of African American business history and