Abstract
Earlier this decade, some of America’s best-known life insurance companies quietly settled multimillion-dollar civil rights lawsuits challenging race-based life insurance rates and benefits. As a result, those companies closed a chapter of American economic history that began after the Civil War with the door-to-door marketing of small individual life insurance policies to poor workers, including former slaves, and their families. The closing of this chapter in history also marked the end of a form of Jim Crow race discrimination largely invisible to the American public.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2010
Recommended Citation
Mary L. Heen, Equally Insured? Lasting Insurance Industry Reform Came Only With a Rethinking of Race, 23 Richmond L. Mag. (2010).
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