The collapse of Freedman’s Bank / Remembering Abdullah Ibrahim
This episode of Fresh Air explores the rise and catastrophic failure of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, a bank established in 1865 for formerly enslaved Black Americans. Historian Justene Hill Edwards reveals how white trustees mismanaged and looted the bank, betraying the financi
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