Black maverick : T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power /
Beito, David T.,1956-
Beito, Linda Royster.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-292) and index.
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.
Howard, T. R. M. (Theodore Roosevelt Mason), 1908-1976.
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
Howard, T. R. M. (Theodore Roosevelt Mason), 1908-1976.
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
African Americans
African American civil rights workers
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African American surgeons
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