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77:(FDIC) bailed out depositors up to the U.S. government's $ 100,000 guarantee for deposits. The decision was seen as a serious "blunder", in contrast to FDIC's treatment of the vast majority of "800 bank failures in the last four years". In those cases, FDIC did not just pay off insured accounts, but instead facilitated new owners to take over failed banks so that the customers received all their money back. 370: 69:
Freedom National failed in 1990 during a recession as it faced loan defaults and internal division. When it was shut down, Freedom National had $ 101.9 million in assets, two branches in Brooklyn, 22,000 depositors, and 97 employees. The bank had also struggled in the mid-1970s but was able to
31:) founded in 1964 and shut down in 1990. Freedom National served Harlem's Black community and was one of the largest Black owned banks in the U.S. Its main office was at 275 West 125th Street. 102: 342: 451: 264: 62:
article was critical of the bank. Freedom National competed with another Black owned and focused bank, the older Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association (now
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Freedom National Bank was founded in 1964 by investors including
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referred to it as "biracial" when it was founded in 1964.
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Jackie Robinson
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Carver Bancorp
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation




"Freedom Bank's Failure Hits Harlem Like a Death in the Family"
The New York Times
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"First Class Citizenship - The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson"
"DUNBAR M'LAURIN, LAWYER, IS DEAD"
"Freedom National Bank in Harlem Prepares to Open"
"Harlem's Freedom National Bank--Exploiters or Soul Brothers?"
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"Failed Dreams - The Collapse of a Harlem Bank; Freedom Bank's Demise: A Trail Of Risky Loans and Fast Growth"
"Freedom Bank's Failure Hits Harlem Like a Death in the Family"
"Saving Carver Federal, New York's last black bank"
"HARLEM BANK'S FAILURE SYMBOL OF FDIC INEQUITY"
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