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A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi
- Title
- A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi / David H. Jackson, Jr.
- Author
- Jackson, David H., Jr., 1968-
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2002.
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- Description
- xv, 282 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- African Americans > Biography
- African Americans > Mississippi > Politics and government > 20th century
- African American political activists > Biography
- African Americans > Education > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 > Friends and associates
- African Americans > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century
- Tuskegee Institute Biography
- Mississippi > Race relations
- Mississippi > Politics and government > 1865-1950
- Banks, Charles, 1873-1923
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-272) and index.
- Contents
- Early life of Charles Banks: "Where I first saw the first light of day" -- History of Mound Bayou: "a negro metropolis" -- Charles Banks, Booker T. Washington, and the Mound Bayou connection -- Leader, organizer, and promoter: "On my job all the time and doing the best that my ability will allow" -- Business league: "being worked to the limit" -- Fund-raiser for negro education: "going ahead endeavoring to meet the conditions as best we can" -- On matters political: "I see that 'Sambo' is left out" -- "Wizard" of finance: "never running away from battle" -- Mound Bayou cotton oil mill: "the largest and most serious undertaking ... in the history of our race" -- After Booker T. Washington: "A tempest in the teapot" -- Conclusion: "the most public-spirited citizen in the history of Mississippi."
- Call Number
- Sc E 03-369
- ISBN
- 0813025443 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002072628
- OCLC
- 50041280
- Author
- Jackson, David H., Jr., 1968-
- Title
- A chief lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi / David H. Jackson, Jr.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-272) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 03-369