Bank president Major Richard R. Wright standing in front of the Citizens and Southern Bank, Philadelphia, PA

Bank president Major Richard R. Wright standing in front of the Citizens and Southern Bank, Philadelphia, PA

Major R. R. Wright, Richard R. Wright, Major Richard R. Wright, Citizens and Southern Bank

Major R. R. Wright, the founder of Citizens and Southern Bank, stands outside its doors. Wright created Citizens and Southern in response to the failings of other Black-owned banks. He kept his bank small, and it was one of the few to re-open after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's bank moratorium.

John Mosley

John Mosley Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro American Collection, Temple University

WCU, HIS 601/HON 451 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Spring 2016

c. 1940

Erica Knorr

Courtesy of Temple University Libraries

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