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Week of March 1: The first Black-owned bank in the U.S. opens in Richmond

Author
Virginia Audio Collective
Published
Tue 01 Mar 2022
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This week in 1888... The Rev. William Washington Browne worked to transform Richmond's black community. It began with a bank. Browne knew that a Black bank needed to be run by Blacks. Browne applied for and received a charter for the first Black bank in the United States. A year later the bank opened.

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