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Black maverick : T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power
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Black maverick : T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power / David T. Beito, Linda Royster Beito.
ISBN
9780252034206 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252034201 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 26, 2009
Series
The new Black studies series
Bibliography
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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