Institution
True Reformers Savings Bank
First Black-owned, Black-operated bank in the U.S., chartered by Virginia in 1888 and opened in Richmond on April 3, 1889; it honored all checks in the panic of 1893 and collapsed in 1910.
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People
- co-founded by · 1888Eliza Allenonly woman on the bank's charterBEJ profile
Institutions and enterprises
- founded by · 1888Grand United Order of True ReformersBEJ profile
Places
- based in · 1889Richmond, Virginiaopened April 3, 1889; later at True Reformers HallBEJ profile
Events
- lived through · 1893Panic of 1893kept honoring checks and paid full account valuesBEJ profile
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