Read `Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago´s First Black Banker´ excerpt
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Chicago banker Jesse Binga´s house after a bomb exploded on his front porch. This photo isn´t dated but likely was from either the summer of 1920 or 1921 - Binga´s house was bombed and damaged both of those summers. | Courtesy of Carolyn Louise Dent-Johnson The new book by former Sun-Times editor Don Hayner tells the story of the South Side as seen through the eyes of one very ambitious man and also the story of the start of segregation in Chicago. Jesse Binga came to Chicago in 1892 to work as a street peddler and rose to become a millionaire realtor and banker, the city´s first black banker. He also became a symbol of aspiration, self-reliance and uplift in Chicago´s `Black Belt.` Binga´s...