The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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Mehrsa Baradaran
Harvard University Press

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the Black community owned less than 1 percent of the total wealth in America. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged.

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