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Black maverick : T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power
- Title
- Black maverick : T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power / David T. Beito, Linda Royster Beito.
- Author
- Beito, David T., 1956-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Beito, Linda Royster.
- Description
- xv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The new Black studies series
- Uniform Title
- New Black studies series.
- Subjects
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- African American businesspeople > Biography
- Howard, T. R. M (Theodore Roosevelt Mason), 1908-1976
- African American civil rights workers > Biography
- Civil Rights > history > Mississippi
- African Americans > Biography
- Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 > Death and burial
- History, 20th Century > Mississippi
- African Americans > history > Mississippi
- African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Physicians > Mississippi > Biography
- Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century
- African American surgeons > Biography
- African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 09-896
- ISBN
- 9780252034206 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252034201 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008034994
- OCLC
- 244246562
- 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.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- Series
- The new Black studies seriesNew Black studies series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-292) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Beito, Linda Royster.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 09-896