| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi. By David H. Jackson Jr. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvi, 282 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2544-3.)

Charles Banks served as Booker T. Washington's chief "lieutenant" in Mississippi at the same time that he became a successful businessman in the all-black Delta town of Mound Bayou. Indeed, Banks was probably the most important African American in the state where it was hardest to be black at the turn of the century. Without really challenging directly the negative interpretations that W. E. B. Du Bois, C. Vann Woodward, and Louis Harlan offered on such materialist and nonconfrontational men as Washington and Banks, David H. Jackson Jr. offers a more upbeat view on Washington, his aide Emmett Scott, and the "Tuskegee machine." He challenges the familiar portrayal of the Tuskegee influence as ruthless, conniving, and intolerant of disagreement. Jackson portrays the relationship between Washington and Banks as mutually beneficial and free-flowing in opinions, with the suggestion that such interdependence was necessary for Washington to have the kind of influence and popularity that the author insists the Tuskegee leader enjoyed in Mississippi.

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