• Institutional Racism

    BBVA and the KKK

    Schuyler A. Baker, Sr., BBVA USA’s founding father, was involved in a federal highway scandal during the racist era of Governor Wallace. The federal government was upset that cronies of segregationist Governor Wallace were obtaining well-paying engineering contracts. Shockingly, the person who was hired to do the publicity on the highway projects was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Shelton. An Associated Press article published in The…