What's Your Worth?
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The Development of Credit Reporting
The only evidence that black Americans were included at all in the white credit economy was in some credit rating books. It really was a narrowly conceived idea of what creditworthiness was, primarily in terms of white people. Lydia Witherspoon: Credit reporting was absolutely promoted in terms of democratization but it was really only democratization for white Americans.
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