African American women in 1920s-era Harlem actively participated in the kinds of investment and questionable financing schemes that made the twenties roar. They often hoped to combine individual gain and collective uplift in their financial pursuits. The St. Luke Finance Corporation was one such scheme that showed great promise but struggled against structural inequities as well as criticism from some sectors of the Black community.
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About the Speaker
Shennette Garrett-Scott is committed to recovering and telling little-known stories about African American women’s enterprise, labor, and activism. A historian of gender, race, and capitalism, Garrett-Scott’s work rethinks Black women’s relationships to the U.S. political economy, particularly their quest for economic and social justice. She is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, College Station and author of the multiple award-winning Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019).
This is the third lecture of the 2022-2023 academic year in the Keller Center's ongoing series History and Legacy of Black Entrepreneurship in the United States.
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