Industrial Bank
Mitchell Jr, B. Doyle / Mitchell, Patricia A. / Page, Lisa Frazier
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a bank holiday on March 5, 1933, closing banks across the country until they proved financial soundness. Meanwhile, as the United States crawled out of the Great Depression, Jesse H. Mitchell and a group of black businessmen accomplished the extraordinarythey started a black-owned bank on a street known as Black Broadway in the nations capital. Mitchell, a Howard Universityeducated lawyer and realtor, and h...