None struck closer to home than Black Friday — the collapse of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. At the root of the scandal were two well-known scoundrels, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.
It’s also not a day that followed Thanksgiving. The first Black Friday took place on September 24, 1869. At the start of his presidency, Ulysses S. Grant planned to improve the economy by ...