Linda Royster Beito

Linda Royster Beito

Linda Royster Beito is chair of the department of social sciences at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Beito was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She earned her Ph.D. in political science and her master of science in criminal justice from the University of Alabama.

She was assistant professor of political science and criminal justice at the University of South Alabama from 1996 to 1999. Since 1999, she has taught at Stillman College where she has received several awards for excellence in teaching. She was also inducted into the Zeta Phi Beta Hall of Fame at Stillman College. Her daughter is April Hart Hardy and her son in Keith.

She married David T. Beito on June 11, 1997 and they live in Northport, Alabama.

Her second book (co-authored by Professor David T. Beito of the University of Alabama), "Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power," will appear in 2009. It is a biography of civil rights leader T.R.M. Howard.

Books

*"Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming in 2009).

*"Leadership Effectiveness in Community Policing" (Wyndham Hall Press, 1999).

Selected Articles and Chapters in Collections

*"Blacks, Gun Cultures and Gun Control: T.R.M. Howard, Armed Self Defense, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi," The Journal of Firearms and Public Policy (September 2005).

*"T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954," Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa), 2004.

*"T.R.M. Howard: A Mississippi Doctor in Chicago Civil Rights," AME Church Review (July-September 2001), 51-59.

* [http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=22&articleID=261 "Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900,"] Independent Review 4 (Spring 2000), 555-75.

*"“Rival Road Builders: Private Toll Roads in Nevada, 1852-1880,*" Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 41 (Summer 1998), 71-91.

*"“Police Community Service: An Evaluation of Program Effectiveness,*" International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 21 (Spring 1997).

* [http://hnn.us/articles/28879.html "The Christian Conservative Who Opposed the Vietnam War"] History News Network, August 21, 2006.

* [http://hnn.us/articles/4853.html "Why It's Unlikely the Emmett Till Murder Will Ever Be Solved," History News Network]

* [http://hnn.us/articles/8193.html "Why the '60 Minutes' Story on Emmett Till Was a Disappointment," History News Network]

* [http://hnn.us/articles/11744.html "The Grim and Overlooked Anniversary of the Murder of the Rev. George W. Lee, Civil Rights Activist"] History News Network, May 6, 2005.

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