Banking on Black: Black Banking And Financial Institutions in Historic Westside, Las Vegas
Mentor: [Tyler Parry].
Description
Guiding Questions and Topic Interest • What happened to the attempts to establish a black-owned bank on the Westside? Why did they fail? • In what ways did the black community engage with financial institutions? • How did black Las Vegans view their fiscal autonomy post-integration of Las Vegas in the 1960s? • How does understanding the community’s history with banking better our understanding of it’s condition in the present?
This paper has been withdrawn.