How Fair is Banking? with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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The Freedman's Bank
The first woman of any race to own a bank, banker in richmond, virginia. She's phenomenally just brilliant and successful. Her bank survives a great depression. It was actually during two thousand and eight, the financial crash, that her bank goes down. Em you have massive exclusions and embraces. And so they were really filling a niche, right? Because it was, they were created because of segregation and jim crow and violence. You create your own sector, your own bank, your own insurance, find your own school. And that is how you a, you know, do the things that you need to doi in t in the sort of maw of this.
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