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Published on: 2011-11-01
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Original language: English

Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and '60s, a place and time known for the brutal murders of Emmett Till, Reverend George Lee, Lamar Smith, and others. Nonetheless, Evers consistently investigated the rapes, murders, beatings, and lynching's of black Mississippians and reported the horrid incidents to a national audience, all the while organizing economic boycotts, sit-ins, and street protests in Jackson as the NAACP's first full-time Mississippi field secretary. He organized and participated in voting drives and nonviolent direct-action protests, joined lawsuits to overturn state-supported school segregation, and devoted himself to a career that cost him his life. This biography of a lesser-known but seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Myrlie Evers-Williams (Evers's widow), his two remaining siblings, friends, grade-school-to-college schoolmates, and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. Extensive archival work in the Evers Papers, the NAACP Papers, oral history collections, FBI files, Citizen Council collections, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Papers, to list a few, provides a detailed account of Evers's NAACP work and a clearer understanding of the racist environment that ultimately led to his murder. Selfless dedication marked the life of Medgar Evers, and while this remains his story, it is also a testament to the important role that grassroots activism played in exacting social change during some of America's most turbulent and violent times. The Journal of African American History The Journal of African American History Volume 100 No.1 Winter 2015: Special Issue Centennial Perspectives 1915-2015 Contents. THE POWER TO DEFINE: AFRICAN ... Freedom Movement Bibliography Freedom Movement Bibliography. See also: Books Written by Freedom Movement Veterans Book Titles Grouped by Subject Audio Film and Videos Movement-Related Web Links PBS Jim Crow Stories: Charles Evers Charles Evers older brother of the civil rights hero and martyr Medgar Evers has been an important leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi. GRADES 4-6 + CIVIL RIGHTS ENTHUSIASTS OF ALL AGES black voters Civil Rights Act of 1964 Brookhaven Mississippi August 28 1955 Important and Famous African Americans - United States History The role of Important and Famous African Americans in the history of the United States of America. Cause of Death: Murder - NNDB NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people organizations schools and general topics listing more than 50000 books and 120000 other kinds of ... Mississippi civil rights workers' murders - Wikipedia In June 1964 in Neshoba County Mississippi three civil rights workers were abducted and murdered in an act of racial violence. The victims were Andrew Goodman and ... "Free At Last" in PDF (6.3MB) - Photos IIP Digital U.S ... FREE AT LAST: THE U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 3 1 A mong the antiquities displayed at the United Nations headquarters in New York is a replica Emmett Till Murder The latest news surrounding the legacy of Emmett Till and the book Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement. African-American Civil Rights Movement (195468) in ... Film Dramatizations. Mississippi Burning (1988) about the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Hairspray (1988 2007 remake) features a major ...
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