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By 1954, Garrett was worth $1.5 million. He proposed a deal to Black businessman Joseph B. Morris, that they purchase real estate together. Morris was a UCLA graduate who had once owned two nightclubs. Joe and his wife Cora became friends with Linda and Bernard. Together they bought the Bankers Building, the tallest building in Los Angeles ...
- September 9, 1999 (aged 73)
- September 19, 1925, Willis, Texas
- Businessperson, investor, banker
Mar 20, 2020 · Garrett approached Joe Morris, a successful black businessman who owned two nightclubs. He proposed that they buy the Banker’s Building, where most of the banks in Los Angeles were headquartered.
Oct 22, 2023 · Key Facts. Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris built a multi-million dollar banking and real estate empire in the 1950s and 60s using a white "frontman" to circumvent racism. They were convicted in 1965 of misusing bank funds and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Garrett and Morris served just 9 months before being released and pardoned in 1967.
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Aug 1, 2022 · Updated August 1, 2022. ‘The Banker’, directed by George Nolfi, marks the first theatrical feature released by Apple TV Plus. Set in the 1960s, the film stars Anthony Mackie as Bernard Garrett, and Samuel L. Jackson as Joe Morris, as two successful black businessmen who devise an audacious plan to take on the racially oppressive banking ...
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Yes. The Banker is based on the true story of Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris, two black men who endeavored to become bankers and landowners in the 1950s and 60s, at a time when racism made that ...
Apr 27, 2020 · In the mid-1960s, Garrett and Morris appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee after a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas charged them with misapplying funds and conspiracy while naming Steiner ...
Apr 18, 2023 · From Joe Morris’ and Bernard Garrett’s initial acquaintance to the very end of the movie, one can clear clearly see the rampant effects of color on the people. At a time, when desegregation was still merely talked about, Bernard Garrett had not just marched with Martin Luther King, but also met President Lyndon B Johnson.
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