The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Military History / Africa - West • 2002 Jane Addams Book

• 2002 Jane Addams Book Award Honor Book winner

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Age Range : 10 - 17

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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Military History / Africa - West • 2002 Jane Addams BookPaperback "A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family." The Atlantic "Extraordinary Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that's often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines that create wealth in America." Ezra Klein When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than 1 percent