Submitted by killianzfinest on April 7, 2008

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Cheif Leuitenant Of The Tuskegee Machine

The careful reconstruction of Banks's financial dealings, and his desperate efforts to keep both bank and mill solvent, explain much about the fragility of black business enterprise in the Jim Crow era and the ultimate weakness of Tuskegee's support. Although generally convincing, Jackson's argument in these chapters--and overall--could be sharper still. To be sure, the paucity of documentary perspectives on these events limits what any scholar could do. The volume's unusual title--A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine--is nonetheless apt given that most of the documentary sources come from the papers of Tuskegee superintendents Booker T. Washington and his successor, Robert R....

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