Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve as a Federal Reserve governor, is used to a fight. She has the scars in her eyebrow and leg to prove it.
Growing up in a small rural town in Georgia, Cook says she was beaten up by a white child during the early days of desegregation, when white-only schools were finally opened up to Black students.
“The reason I know that it was a racist incident was because the child called me the ‘N-word’ and I’d never heard it before,” she said in an IMF podcast in 2022, adding she had to go “home to ask what [the word] meant”.
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