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- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Description
xv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic references
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.
ISBN
  • 9780252034206 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252034201 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008034994
OCLC
244246562
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