Interior photo of Industrial Savings Bank upon its re-opening in 1934.

ID: 3863 ~ Source: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Industrial Bank of Washington: 2000 11th Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Industrial Bank of Washington: 2000 11th Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Industrial Bank of Washington: 2000 11th Street NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

As African American families began fleeing the South during the Great Migration, they discovered in Washington great opportunities in education and employment. However, finding capital to buy a home…