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Washington, noting that half of the homes owned by blacks in Virginia were built using loans from minority-owned thrifts, claimed "the most numerous and popular form of cooperative business in which our people have engaged is that of the building and loan associations." Similarly, W.

Homeownership is colorblind: the role of African American savings and loans in home finance, 1880-1980

He explained how building and loan associations worked and gave stern examples of the practices of loan sharks--which made bank loans much more preferable....

Remembering Maggie Lena Walker: the making of a black bank: Walker became the country's first woman president of a financial institution and founded one of the nation's oldest surviving black-owned banks

By 1890, the nation's estimated $11 trillion in private debt was segmented along social class lines: while the urban working class turned to pawnbrokers, small-loan agencies, and marginal retailers selling furniture or clothing on the installment plan, middleclass clients patronized more respectable building and loan associations for five-year mortgages for the construction of residential homes.

Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. (Reviews)

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