Shaun Murdock | Root & BranchFeb 12

We often ignore the 'Group Economy' documented by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1907.

He audited how African Americans, locked out of white banks, built their own insurance and banking networks. This wasn't ideological 'socialism'; it was a data-driven survival strategy against systemic exclusion.

It is the ancestor of modern Community Wealth Building. Read the review:

https://rootandbranch.online/library/history-dubois/?v2

#BHM #DuBois #BlackHistory #MutualAid #DecoloniseEconomics

Economic Co-operation | Root & Branch

A forensic audit of African American economic life (1907). Identifying the "Group Economy" not as an ideological choice, but as a data-driven survival strategy against financial exclusion.