African-Americans: Facts

the Freedman's Savings Bank, created in 1865 for emancipated African-Americans, had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the height of its success?
Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
Alpha Kappa Alpha founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire?

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