This is the first in a series of photos relating to my book (co-authored by Linda Royster Beito), Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009).

The book is about the civil rights leader, self-help champion, entrepreneur, and surgeon, T.R.M. Howard.

Pictured above is Howard, then a Republican candidate for Congress in Chicago, as he meets with Eisenhower on the eve of the 1958 election.

For the other photos (some of which do not appear in the book, see here.