Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
323.0922/REID,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
342 pages, 16 unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063068797, 0063068796 :, 0063068796, 9780063068797
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue: Love -- Mississippi Goddamn -- Medgar and Myrlie -- Emmett till -- The house on Guynes Street -- Mississippi freedom -- Freedom from fear -- Countdown -- How to be a civil rights widow -- A tristate conspiracy? -- Justice -- Carnegie Hall -- Many thanks -- Notes -- Index
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today