Trm howard biography

Civil rights leader Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard was born on 4 March in Murray, Kentucky. His father was a tobacco twister, while his mother worked as a cook for Will Mason, a prominent white doctor. Mason hired the boy to perform menial hospital jobs and was so impressed that he helped pay for Howard’s medical education. In gratitude, Howard added Mason to his name. Howard attended three Adventist colleges: the all-black Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama; Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska; and the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda, California. At Union College, he won the American Anti-Saloon’s League’s national oratorical contest.

While in California, Howard was active in civil rights and politics and wrote a regular column for the California Eagle, the main black newspaper in Los Angeles. He was also the president of a self-help political organization, the California Economic, Commercial, and Political League. In he married prominent black socialite Helen

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T. R. M. Howard

American physician

"Theodore Howard" redirects here. For other uses, see Theodore Howard (disambiguation).

Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason ''T. R. M.'' Howard (March 4, – May 1, ) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, whose efforts gained local and national attention leading up to the civil rights movement of the s.

Howard founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership; and played a prominent role in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till in the late s. He was also president of the National Medical Association, chairman of the board of the National Negro Business League, and a leading national advocate of African-American businesses. His contributions were clearly not only in a clinical setting, bu

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Dr. T.R.M. Howard Papers

Series 1: Biography, Box 1Folder 1Biography, T.R.M. Howard’s Funeral Program, Series 2: Manuscripts, Box 1Folder 2Manuscripts, The Challenge of This Hour, Box 1Folder 3Manuscripts, Howard, Theodore, Crime – Its Cause and Cure: Is Prohibition the Cause?/Ten Years of Prohibitions, c. sBox 1Folder 4Manuscripts, Howard, Theodore, Foreword to “Time Bomb: Mississippi Exposed and the Full Story of Emmett Till” by Olive Arnold Adams, Box 1Folder 5Manuscripts, Howard, Theodore, The Issue Is Freedom: First Class CitizenshipFor All Americans, ?Box 1Folder 6Manuscripts, Howard, Theodore, The Mississippi Negro’s Stand on Segregation in Public Schools of Mississippi, Box 1Folder 7Manuscripts, Howard, Theodore, Not Bread But Freedom, Box 1Folder 8Manuscripts, Howard, Theodore, Presidential Address, 62nd Annual Meeting of the National Medical Association, Box 1