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Subject(s)

• Howard, T. R. M. (Theodore Roosevelt Mason) 1908-1976 [Browse]
• African Americans—Biography [Browse]
• African American civil rights workers—Biography [Browse]
• African American businesspeople—Biography [Browse]
• African American surgeons—Biography [Browse]
• African Americans—Civil rights—Mississippi—History—20th century [Browse]
• Civil rights movements—Mississippi—History—20th century [Browse]
• Till, Emmett 1941-1955—Death and burial [Browse]
• Mississippi—Race relations—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Economic conditions—20th century [Browse]

Related name

• Beito, Linda Royster [Browse]

Series

• New Black studies series [More in this series]
• The new Black studies series

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.

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ISBN

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

LCCN

2008034994

OCLC

244246562

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