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This essay tells the life and work of Charles Banks, Booker T. Washington's chief lieutenant in Mississippi; he was an African American leader in the state and most influential black businessmen in the early decades of the 20th century. This book was to enlighten people about who Charles banks was and how he was important to our history. Charles Banks was born March 25, 1973, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, to Daniel A. and Sallie Ann Banks. His parents had been slaves in Mississippi. In A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine, David H. Jackson Jr. tells the life of Charles Banks leading African American entrepreneur and adherent to Booker T. Washington's strategy of self-help and racial uplift in the Jim Crow South.

Charles banks became a retail merchant, bank founder, mill owner, and a founder and leading citizen of the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Jackson attributes Bank's achievements as a hard worker and business men. Charles Banks was a famous Black leader,......

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