Citizens Trust Bank

Citizens Trust Bank is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 2025.

At Citizens Trust Bank’s Westside Branch, its first branch location, on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta

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On August 16, 1921, businessmen Heman E. Perry, James A. Robinson, Thomas J. Ferguson, W.H. King, and Henry Dugas (known as the “Fervent Five”), opened the African-American-owned and -operated Citizens Trust Bank on Auburn Avenue to serve Black Atlantans. The bank played a key role in the community, promoting business growth while facilitating homeownership for a larger number of African Americans. In 1934 the bank was the first African-American-owned bank to gain Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation membership, and in 1947 it became the first African-American-owned bank to join the Federal Reserve System. In 1955, Citizens Trust Bank opened its first branch location at this site. Today, Citizens Trust Bank is one of the United States’ largest African-American-owned financial institutions and remains headquartered in Atlanta while serving communities across the country. Erected by the Georgia Historical Society and Citizens Trust Bank

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Historical maps covering this location

1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Historical map (Stanford Libraries)

South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering the location of Citizens Trust Bank, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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