Our History: More than 650K viewers tune in for the untold story of The Freedman’s Bank

Our History: More than 650K viewers tune in for the untold story of The Freedman’s Bank

by | Aug 14, 2016 | Financial Literacy, HOPE Global Forums, HOPE Inside, HOPE Project 5117, HOW THE POOR CAN SAVE CAPITALISM Book, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights

In this video I unpack and tell the mostly untold story of The Freedman’s Bank, as created by President Abraham Lincoln immediately after the American Civil War, on March 3rd, 1865.  Businessman and abolitionist Frederick Douglass went on to run the bank...