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Number 8305
Subject Banks
Source Village Voice (New York)
State None
Year 1991
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Summary Village Voice (New York) investigates the failure of Harlem's Freedom National Bank, a national symbol of African-American pride and economic power; finds that the bank, which was intended to be run by and for the Harlem community, became controlled by a small group of powerbrokers whose excessive risk-taking and incessant infighting eventually drove the bank into insolvency, April 30 & May 7, 1991.
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