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T.R.M. Howard : doctor, entrepreneur, civil rights pioneer /
- Title
- T.R.M. Howard : doctor, entrepreneur, civil rights pioneer / David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito ; foreword by Jerry W. Mitchell ; with an afterword by the authors.
- Author
- Beito, David T., 1956-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : Independent Institute, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xxii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "T. R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer tells the remarkable story of one of the early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A renaissance man, T.R.M. Howard (1908-1976) was a respected surgeon, important black community leader, and successful businessman. Howard's story reveals the importance of the black middle class, their endurance and entrepreneurship in the midst of Jim Crow, and their critical role in the early Civil Rights Movement. In this powerful biography, David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito shine a light on the life and accomplishments of this civil rights leader. Howard founded black community organizations, organized civil rights rallies and boycotts, mentored Medgar Evers, antagonized the Ku Klux Klan, and helped lead the fight for justice for Emmett Till. Raised in poverty and witness to racial violence from a young age, Howard was passionate about justice and equality. Ambitious, zealous, and sometimes paradoxical, Howard provides a complete portrait of an important leader all too often forgotten"--
- Uniform Title
- Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
- Alternative Title
- Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
- Subjects
- Civil rights movements
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Mississippi
- African Americans > Economic conditions
- African American civil rights workers
- African American businesspeople
- African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century
- African American civil rights workers > Biography
- Biography
- Howard, T. R. M (Theodore Roosevelt Mason), 1908-1976
- African American surgeons > Biography
- History
- African Americans > Biography
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 > Death and burial
- African American businesspeople > Biography
- Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Race relations
- Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- "Previously published as Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power by University of Illinois Press"--ECIP title page.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-322) 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 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.
- ISBN
- 9781598133127
- 1598133128
- 9781598133134
- 1598133136
- LCCN
- 2017055815
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library