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LAST SPRING, shortly after the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Donald E. Sneed, president of the new Unity Bank and Trust Company in Roxbury--the first bi-racial bank in New England--spoke in Hilles Library at Radcliffe. He was angry then, and one couldn't help but be struck by his overwhelming determination. He told a spellbound audience of 200, "We are going to be the fastest growing commercial bank in New England and everybody is going to help. If you don't help, someday you're going to sit back and say, 'I should have listened...
UNITY was conceived two years ago by John T. Hayden, a black graduate of the Harvard Business School. After writing a term paper about the economic needs of the ghetto community, Hayden decided to establish a community-based commercial bank in Roxbury. He contacted Sneed, who, at, that time, owned a small real estate business in Roxbury and was involved in civil rights boycotts and bussing attempts...
...Mississippi-born sharecropper, Fred Harris is a liberal by osmosis. "He had to work like a dog for everything he has," recalls Earl Sneed, his former law school dean. "Consequently, he would be very sympathetic to those who are disadvantaged." A Phi Beta Kappa and No. 1 graduate of his University of Oklahoma law class, Harris has pretty well known where he wanted to go since, at age five, he led a horse around in circles to power a hay baler. He wanted to get an education and rise to the top. He married his Comanche Indian sweet heart, LaDonna...
...Denver, Mrs. Lavada Ann Sneed, a 42-year-old grandmother, who had packed 3,600 parachutes for the Army during the war, hired a pilot to take her to 4,000 feet and bailed out, to see what it was like. It was all right...
...GILBERT SNEED Waco...