Black Maverick
Subtitle: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
By: David T. Beito, Linda Royster Beito.
Contributors: Beito, Linda Royster.
Series: The new Black studies series
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252034206
Subjects: Howard, T. R. M., -- 1908-1977; Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955 -- Death and burial; African Americans -- Biography; African American civil rights workers -- Biography; African American businesspeople -- Biography; African American surgeons -- Biography; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Up from the black patch; title: The education of a "race man"; title: Fraternalist, entrepreneur, planter, and segregation-era pragmatist; title: A "modern Moses" for civil rights in Mississippi; title: "The most hated, and the best loved, man in Mississippi"; title: "Hell to pay in Mississippi" : the murder of Emmett Till; title: "Time bomb" : Howard, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Emmett Till mystery; title: Taking on the machine in Chicago : a Republican campaign for congress; title: Triumph and tragedy : the Friendship Medical Center.