The August 7, 2009, edition of the The Wall Street Journal includes a feature review of Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power.
Howard drove Cadillacs and Buicks, wore fancy clothes, and loved guns and big-game hunting. He praised free Âenterprise with a Booker T. Washington fervor, believing entrepreneurs to be better agents of change than Âactivists. He once sighed for “one bomb that could be Âfashioned that would blow every Communist in America right back to Russia where they belong.” A flamboyant Second Amendment, Âanti-communist capitalist doesn’t please journalists and historians searching for civil-rights martyrs.
