Banking on Black: Black Banking And Financial Institutions in Historic Westside, Las Vegas

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?

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Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno)
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2025-05-02
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Race, History, and American Society
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Banking on Black: Black Banking And Financial Institutions in Historic Westside, Las Vegas

Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno)
Race, History, and American Society
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Banking on Black: Black Banking And Financial Institutions in Historic Westside, Las Vegas

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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?

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