Here's your daily dose of "They never taught us in school about this particular racist thing that happened" to make you angry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedman's_Savings_Bank. Some theorize that the generational sting of being burned by this fraud is part of why Black Americans remain underbanked into the present day.
(also in podcast form: https://overcast.fm/+0NtlOOABk)
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