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In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first Black woman to charter a U.S. bank when she opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, as the bank's first president. In a classic replay episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by xChange — historian Shennette Garrett-Scott tells the story of Walker and her mission to help Black women find financial empowerment and professional career opportunities. Garrett-Scott, the author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, discusses: How Walker countered impressions that Black women were uniquely risky bank clients. The broader context of African-American banks and what set Walker's St. Luke Bank apart. The relationships between Black banks and mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations like the Independent Order of St. Luke. How newly professionalized Progressive Era financial regulators threw up hurdles to Black-owned banks and insurers. The St. Luke Bank's relationships with white-owned banks in Richmond and elsewhere.

In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first Black woman to charter a U.S. bank when she opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, as the bank’s first president. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by NICE Actimize Xceed — historian Shennette Garrett-Scott tells the story of Walker and her mission to help Black women find financial empowerment and professional career opportunities. Garrett-Scott, the author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, discusses: How Walker countered impressions that Black women were uniquely risky bank clients. The broader context of African-American banks and what set Walker’s St. Luke Bank apart. The relationships between Black banks and mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations like the Independent Order of St. Luke. How newly professionalized Progressive Era financial regulators threw up hurdles to Black-owned banks and insurers. The St. Luke Bank’s relationships with white-owned banks in Richmond and elsewhere. This episode is sponsored by NICE Actimize Xceed. Additional resources: Read a past Banking Journal feature on Walker as one of nine young bankers who changed America. Read a Wall Street Journal article on Walker’s legacy. View a virtual tour of Walker’s home in Richmond.

BANKING ON FREEDOM is the first full-length history of finance capitalism that centers black women and the banking institutions and networks they built from the eve of the Civil War to the Great Depression. Black women played essential roles in black communities’ efforts to use finance to carve out possibilities within U.S. capitalism and society.  In particular she shares the story of Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to organize a bank and lead a bank.  In 1903 she organized the St. Luke Penny Bank in Richmond, Virginia. An Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi, Shennette Garrett-Scott is a historian of gender, race, and capitalism.

BANKING ON FREEDOM is the first full-length history of finance capitalism that centers black women and the banking institutions and networks they built from the eve of the Civil War to the Great Depression. Black women played essential roles in black communities' efforts to use finance to carve out possibilities within U.S. capitalism and society.  In particular she shares the story of Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to organize a bank and lead a bank.  In 1903 she organized the St. Luke Penny Bank in Richmond, Virginia.An Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi, Shennette Garrett-Scott is a historian of gender, race, and capitalism.

Kristen R. Ghodsee reads part one of Chapter Two of the 1927 English translation of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 novella, Red Love.Mentioned in this episode are the following books:Amis, B.D. African American Radical: A Short Anthology of Writings and Speeches.Andrews, Gregg. Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle.Davies, Carole Boyce. Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones.Davis, Angela. Women, Race & Class.De los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Maria. Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century.Dudziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.McDuffie, Erik S. Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism.Support the show (https://bookshop.org/books/why-women-have-better-sex-under-socialism-and-other-arguments-for-economic-independence/9781645036364)

In this episode,we speak w/returning guest Professor Charisse Burden-Stelly about W.E.B. Du Bois, radical blackness,& black internationalism --- Readings & Resources Charisse Burden-Stelly & Gerald Horne - W.E.B. Du Bois:A Life in American History https://www.amazon.com/W-B-Du-Bois-American/dp/1440864969/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dubois+charisse+burden-stelly&qid=1577219962&sr=8-1 Charisse Burden-Stelly “W.E.B. Du Bois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness:Radicalism, Repression, & Mutual Comradeship, 1930–1960” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08854300.2018.1575070 “In Battle for Peace during ‘Scoundrel Time’: W.E.B. Du Bois & United States Repression of Radical Black Peace Activism" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/in-battle-for-peace-during-scoundrel-time/F81265698C05F13CE8B852BF54014461/share/cc938e6f2392f29081d80e1178b9fb664f66e9d4?fbclid=IwAR3px-OtNOrURUApKIwFWeePtfBR0Kia6pyBSSYio1Qp6NQUrqWaqOir0iM (preview) “Left,Black,& Badass” -Interview w/LeftPOC https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-episode-5-left-black-badass-interview-wcharisse-burden-stelly “McCarthy Era Laid Groundwork for 60s Repression” -Interview w/Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/mccarthy-era-laid-groundwork-sixties-repression?fbclid=IwAR2gVBJU6sbF0PX9YORLMrB7qb90JtwRN-wIVzxvsxtoQxOT1VwygWT54Io Academia.edu: https://carleton.academia.edu/CharisseBurdenStellyPhD Instagram: @blackleftaf Black Internationalism,Black Radicalism,& Pan-Africanism LeftPOC Thread on Harry Haywood: https://twitter.com/LeftPOC/status/976898822961090561?s=20 Black Belt Thesis: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-belt-republic-1928-1934/ Hubert Harrison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Harrison Hubert Harrison - The Negro & the Nation https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Nation-Hubert-Harrison-ebook/dp/B00KVUW47G/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=hubert+harrison&qid=1577238386&sr=8-5 Cedric J. Robinson Black Communism:The Making of the Black Radical Tradition https://www.amazon.com/Black-Marxism-Making-Radical-Tradition/dp/0807848298/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LM3UHICDNYAO&keywords=cedric+robinson+black+marxism&qid=1577238772&sprefix=cedric+robinson%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1 On Racial Capitalism,Black Internationalism,& Cultures of Resistance https://www.amazon.com/Cedric-Robinson-Capitalism-Internationalism-Resistance/dp/0745340032/ref=sr_1_2?crid=LM3UHICDNYAO&keywords=cedric+robinson+black+marxism&qid=1577238811&sprefix=cedric+robinson%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-2 Hakim Adi Pan-Africanism & Communism:The Communist International,Africa & the Diaspora,1919-39 https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Africanism-Communism-Communist-International-1919-1939/dp/1592219160/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577240823&s=books&sr=1-1 Pan-Africanism:A History https://www.amazon.com/Pan-Africanism-History-Hakim-Adi/dp/1474254276/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577239435&s=books&sr=1-2 West Africans in Britain 1900-60:Nationalism,Pan-Africanism & Communism https://www.amazon.com/West-Africans-Britain-1900-1960-Pan-Africanism-ebook/dp/B07YPTK2MG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=hakim+adi&qid=1577240823&s=books&sr=1-3 Mikah Makalani - In the Cause of Freedom:Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-39 https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Freedom-Radical-Internationalism-1917-1939/dp/1469617528/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=minkah+makalani&qid=1577239253&sr=8-1 Erik McDuffie - Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism https://www.amazon.com/Sojourning-Freedom-American-Communism-Feminism/dp/0822350505/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/147-1591993-2094153?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822350505&pd_rd_r=7e115c5d-d261-45d9-bb65-777c83082139&pd_rd_w=nTcw6&pd_rd_wg=i8jfB&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=M57RMEXS9D4907VSKDMX&psc=1&refRID=M57RMEXS9D4907VSKDMX --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South. Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903. Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South. Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903. Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott's new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an endeavor, first the Independent Order of St. Luke, and then the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, founded in Richmond in 1903.  Along the way, she tells the tale of force-of-nature strong women, particularly Maggie Lena Walker, who wouldn't take no for an answer as she built up a culture of business and entrepreneurship against incredibly long odds and never-ending efforts by regulators and competitors to thwart her efforts. It makes for gripping reading. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors. You can follow him on Twitter @Back2BizBook or at http://www.strategicdividendinvestor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly Suggested Reading Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72 Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935) Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970) Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112. Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122 Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007) ____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228 ____,Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment,(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher,Inc.,2011) Combahee River Collective,“The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in Homegirls:A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith,(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1983),264-269 Dayo F. Gore et al.,eds.,Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle,(New York: New York University Press,2009) ____,Radicalism at The Crossroads:African American Activists in the Cold War,(New York: New York University Press,2011); Cheryl Higashida, Black International Feminism:Women Writers of the Black Left,1945-1995 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011) Gerald Horne,Race Woman:The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois, (New York: New York University Press,2000) Buzz Johnson,“I Think of My Mother”:Notes on the Life & Times of Claudia Jones,(London: Karia Press,1985) Erik McDuffie, “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’:Sojourning for Truth,Justice, & Civil Rights during the Early Cold War,”Radical History Review 101 (2008),81-106 ____, “‘I wanted a Communist philosophy,but I wanted us to have a change to organize our people’:The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore & the origins of black power,” African & Black Diaspora 3 (2010),181-195 ____,Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism,(Durham:Duke University Press,2011). ____,“‘For full freedom of… colored women in Africa,Asia,& in these United States…’: Black Women Radicals & the Practice of a Black Women’s International,”Palimpsest 1 (2012),1-30 Louise Thompson Patterson,“Toward a Brighter Dawn,”Woman Today,April 1936 Rhoda Reddock,“Radical Caribbean social thought:Race,class identity & the postcolonial nation,”Current Sociology 62 (2014),493-511 Marika Sherwood,Claudia Jones:A Life in Exile,(London: Lawrence & Wishart,1999) Ula Taylor,“‘Reading Men & Nations’: Women in the Black Radical Tradition,”Souls 1 (1999),72-80 ____,The Veiled Garvey:The Life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey,(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2002) Stephen Ward,“The Third World Women’s Alliance:Black Feminist Radicalism & Black Power Politics,”in The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights- Black Power Era edited by Peniel E. Joseph,199-144,(New York: Routledge,2006) Mary Helen Washington,“Alice Childress,Loraine Hansberry, & Claudia Jones Write the Popular Front,”in Left of the Color Line:Race,Radicalism, & Twentieth Century Literature of the United Stated edited by Bill V. Mullen & James Smethurst,183-204,(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2003) For the full list, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-pocket-5-w-16178909 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Twitter: @LeftPOC Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc