The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

The Art of Deliberate Disunity

Thomas Aiello (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478011804 (ISBN)

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Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Publicity-seeking provocateur. Louis Lomax's life was a study in contradiction. In this biography, Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating arc of Lomax's life and career, showing how the contradictions, tumult, and inconsistencies that marked his life reflected those of 1960s America. Aiello takes readers from Lomax's childhood in the Deep South to his early confidence schemes to his emergence as one of the loudest and most influential voices of the civil rights movement. Regardless of what political position he happened to take at any given moment, Lomax preached “the art of deliberate disunity,” in which the path to democracy could only be achieved through a diversity of opinions. Engaging and broad in scope, The Life and Times of Louis Lomax is the definitive study of one of the civil rights era's most complicated, important, and overlooked figures.

Thomas Aiello is Associate Professor of History at Valdosta State University and the author of many books, including Jim Crow's Last Stand and The Grapevine of the Black South.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. From Privilege to Prison 7
2. The Hate That Hate Produced 24
3. The Reluctant African 40
4. The Negro Revolt 55
5. Ambitions 73
6. When the World Is Given 90
7. The Louis Lomax Show 111
8. Thailand 132
9. Branching Out 150
10. Conspiracies 167
Notes 179
Bibliography 221
Index 239

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2021
Zusatzinfo	16 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478011804 / 9781478011804
Zustand	Neuware