CITIZENS’ AND SOUTHERN: THE PEOPLE’S BANK 19th & South Streets An Oral History

"In September of 1920, R.R. Wright Jr. and his father, R.R. Wright Senior opened the Citizens’ & Southern Banking Company at the corner of 19th and South Street in Philadelphia. The bank soon amassed $100,000 and 4,000 depositors, and in the decades that followed helped launch dozens of small businesses throughout the city's African-American neighborhoods."

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An oral history of starting a major Black Bank in Philadelphia . Listen to the man that helped to lay the foundation of the Citizens and Southern: The People's Bank in Philadelphia. Listen https://goinnorth.org/items/show/1050