CITIZENS
TRUST BANK

YOUR STORY IS OUR STORY

Citizens Trust Bank is one of the first Black-owned banks in the U.S. We helped them create the first brand campaign in the bank’s 100-year history, by telling the story of their founding. In 1921, Mr. Heman Perry was turned away from buying sock at a white-owned story in Atlanta. This moment of discrimination gave him the idea to start a bank for the Black community, providing equal access to wealth to buy homes and start businesses.

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To create the campaign, we took over an Atlanta street and recreated the 1920s to show Mr. Perry’s moment of inspiration.
We followed it up with a :15 and :06s showing the impact the bank is having today, with mortgage and small business messages.

BRAND ACT & SOCIAL: SOCKS WITH A STORY

Mr. Heman Perry was denied buying socks in that white-owned store. So we created Socks With a Story, limited-edition Heman Perry tribute socks that took 100 years to make.