Author:
Beito, David T., 1956-
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Descriptionxv, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-292) and index.
