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Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. By David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito. The New Black Studies Series. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2009. Pp. [xviii], 304. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03420-6.)
Racial segregation and the Jim Crow practice of denying civil and other rights to post-World War 11 black southerners remain of interest to historians. David T Beito and Linda Royster Beito's Black Maverick: T R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power is a recent contribution to the emerging historiography on race and change in the civil rights-era South. The authors, using a welter of sources ranging from FBI files to interviews with surviving contemporaries to archival collections, newspapers, popular magazines, and a litany of other primary and secondary references, make a compelling case for T. R. M. Howard (1908-1976) as an agent - as a "maverick" even -...