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Author:

Beito, David T., 1956-

Title:

Black maverick : T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power / David T. Beito, Linda Royster Beito.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Howard, T. R. M.--(Theodore Roosevelt Mason),--1908-1976.
African Americans--Biography.
African American civil rights workers--Biography.
African American businesspeople--Biography.
African American surgeons--Biography.
African Americans--History--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Till, Emmett,--1941-1955--Death and burial.
Mississippi--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.
Howard, T. R. M.--(Theodore Roosevelt Mason),--1908-1976.
Till, Emmett,--1941-1955.
Physicians--Mississippi--Biography.
African Americans--history--Mississippi.
Civil Rights--history--Mississippi.
History, 20th Century--Mississippi.

Other Authors:

Beito, Linda Royster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-292) and index.

Contents:

Up from the black patch -- The education of a "race man" -- Fraternalist, entrepreneur, planter, and segregation-era pragmatist -- A "modern Moses" for civil rights in Mississippi -- "The most hated, and the best loved, man in Mississippi" -- "Hell to pay in Mississippi" : the murder of Emmett Till -- "Time bomb" : Howard, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Emmett Till mystery -- Taking on the machine in Chicago : a Republican campaign for Congress -- Triumph and tragedy : the Friendship Medical Center.

Series:

The new Black studies series

ISBN:

0252034201 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252034206 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244246562

LCCN:

2008034994

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)