Thank you for joining us for todays events. Featuring doctors. This is your first time joining us, my i have the honor of serving as the dean of the school of business. 2020 marks a very special year for this school. Its our 100th anniversary were celebrating 100 years purpose driven business education. Since our inception, we believed in the power of partnership to inform and lead change. So very much would like to thank the cavalli center for Global Security analysis and her wonderful partners, the museum of American Finance and cfa society of new york. Is cosponsoring todays conversation. One of the goals of this centennial series is to shine the light on the important history place in shaping the future. In the latest book, thanking unfreedom, black woman in u. S. Finance and for the new deal, she explores rich. Of financial innovation and his Transformative Impact on u. S. Capitalism. Todays session will take place in three parts. First, my colleague and friend, david, president a
Different approaches to segregation. When we react, does a fiend, you are talking about significant as tlc. Different approaches to reach the same goal. Sometimes it will work, depending on who you are and what the situation is. We need to take time to look at how all those things come together at how all of those things come together, not condemn one way or another way. You have to take in the full context to understand what was happening. So these stories will help us see when we are in our own situation today, it is all right to take different approaches, depending on what was happening at the time. Thank you for that. I wanted to follow up with another question. Can you talk about who Maggie Walker was . She was one of the first africanamerican women to register to vote after the 19th amendment was ratified. Tell us a little bit about who she was and is there anything in her personal papers, anything she wrote or said that gives us insight into how she felt . Clearly she thought it
Center for Global Security analysis and our wonderful partners, the museum of American Finance and the society of new york whose cosponsoring todays conversation. One of the goals of the centennial series is to shine the light on the importance history plays in shaping the future. In the latest book black women in u. S. Finance before the new deal, she explores a period of financial innovation and its Transformative Impact on u. S. Capitalism. Todays session will take place in three parts. First, my colleague and friend, president and ceo of the museum of American Finance and we will introduce doctor garrett scott. Then she will discuss her book banking on freedom. Following this discussion, david and i will facilitate audience questions. We ask that you type your questions in the q and a section near the bottom of the screen. I am also excited to share that as a participant of todays webinar, you will be entered into a raffle to win a free copy of the book banking on freedom. Winners
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Winford places John Hervey Wheeler in the center of the civil rights narrative, casting new light on the role this banker, activist and humanitarian played. The central argument of this work is that wheeler exemplified the activist business demand that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle, a figure that continues to be under analyzed. He was often overlooked due to emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement, protests and mobilizations and other dramatic events. I am on this panel because i studied North Carolina civil rights history. Again i can speak to the ways in , which brendans book is making a really significant intervention in the history, not only of civil rights writ large, but the Civil Rights Movement and the black struggling North Carolina in particular. So from wheelers perch at mechanics and farmers bank and dunn, he was a consummate insider and powerplay or who understood the calculus of social change dictated variegated approaches and the purs