1951-1970 Federal Reserve Chair Bill Martin Was a Committed Segregationist

1951-1970 Federal Reserve Chair Bill Martin Was a Committed Segregationist

This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises. SubscribeTip!Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was born and raised in Milledgeville Georgia, about a 100 miles away from Atlanta. She also shares a birth year with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which, among other things, gave the federal government multiple tools to enforce the desegregation of public schools- including the denial of federal financial assistance. This is often referred to as “banni…