Rodney A. Brooks
Rodney A. Brooks is a veteran journalist who has written for National Geographic, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report and USA TODAY. He is the author of the book, The Rise and Fall of the Freedman’s Savings Bank and Its Lasting Socio-Economic Impact on Black America, which received an Outstanding Book Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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It promised Black Americans a place to build financial security after emancipation. But corrupt leaders fleeced depositors, creating one of the Reconstruction era's greatest financial scandals.
Roosevelt, known as 'the great communicator,' used his speeches and fireside chats to calm Americans’ fears—and to rally them around his policies.
Most hospitals turned them away—or sent them to the basement for treatment.
