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Richard Robert Wright Sr. at the Citizens' and Southern Banking Company
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Richard Robert Wright Sr. decided to open up his own bank in 1921 after moving to Philadelphia. At the time of creating The Citizen's & Southern Bank and Trust Company, it was the only African-American owned bank in the North and the first African…