T.R.M. Howard : doctor, entrepreneur, civil rights pioneer / David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito ; foreword by Jerry W. Mitchell ; with an afterword by the authors.

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"T. R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer tells the remarkable story of one of the early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A renaissance man, T.R.M. Howard (1908-1976) was a respected surgeon, important black community leader, and successful businessman. Howard's story reveals...

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Uniform Title:Black maverick: T.R.M. Howard's fight for civil rights and economic power
Independent Institute studies in political economy.
Main Authors: Beito, David T., 1956- (Author)
Beito, Linda Royster (Author)
Other Authors: Mitchell, Jerry W. (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, CA : Independent Institute, [2018]
Series:Independent Institute studies in political economy.
Subjects:
Howard, T. R. M. > (Theodore Roosevelt Mason), > 1908-1976.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Death and burial.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
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.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
African American businesspeople.
African American civil rights workers.
African American surgeons.
African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
Civil rights movements.
Race relations.
Mississippi.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Physical Description:xxii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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 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.