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Source: The Clarion-Ledger

2-24-17

The surgeon who led the way for MLK and others

by David T. Beito

His name was T.R.M. Howard and he was the richest black man in Mississippi. (He was also on J. Edgar Hoover’s list of enemies.)

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The surgeon who led the way for MLK and others

by David T. Beito