National Bankers Association

CTL-E-5956 · Organization · other · 1927–present

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Combined Graph record U-07196 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5956.

The National Bankers Association is the trade association of America's minority-owned banks, founded in 1927 as the Negro Bankers Association. Its organizing meeting brought nineteen Black banks together at Pythias Hall in Philadelphia in 1926, led by R. R. Wright of Philadelphia and C. C. Spaulding of Durham, North Carolina; the founding meeting followed in Durham in 1927. Renamed the National Bankers Association in 1948, it is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and describes itself as the voice of minority banking. Its membership — about one hundred institutions in the association's recent counts — spans twenty-two states and the District of Columbia, and has expanded beyond Black-owned banks to Hispanic-American, Asian-American, Native American, and women-owned institutions. For nearly a century the association has been the organized form of Black America's banking sector, the industry that financed much of the world this graph records.

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• Also known as: Negro Bankers Association, National Negro Bankers Association

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Sources

• Wikipedia, "National Bankers Association" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the 1927 founding, the 1948 renaming, the Washington headquarters, and the roughly 100-member-institution count — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bankers_Association (primary source · build store)
• Encyclopedia.com, "National Bankers Association" (from the International Directory of Company Histories) (accessed 2026-10-16) — the 1926 Pythias Hall organizing meeting of nineteen banks under Wright and Spaulding, the 1927 Durham founding, and the founding-era name carried in the conflict below — https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/national-bankers-association (primary source · build store)
• National Bankers Association, "ABA and National Bankers Association Announce New Partnership to Serve Minority Depository Institutions" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the association's own current statement of its minority-depository mission and membership span — https://www.nationalbankers.org/news-6/aba-and-national-bankers-association-announce-new-partnership-to-serve-minority-depository-institutions (build store)

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