The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

The Art of Deliberate Disunity

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Thomas Aiello

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

April 2nd, 2021

Author

Thomas Aiello

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

16 illustrations

Pages

264

ISBN-13

9781478010685

Product ID

33520482

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