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100 1 $aEvers, Medgar Wiley,$d1925-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93021582
245 14 $aThe autobiography of Medgar Evers :$ba hero's life and legacy revealed through his writings, letters, and speeches /$c[Medgar Wiley Evers] ; edited and with commentaries by Myrlie Evers-Willams and Manning Marable.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Civitas/Harper Collins,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axxiv, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 319-330) and index.
520 1 $a"Bringing together never-before-seen photos and archival treasures with famous essays such as "Why I Live in Mississippi," Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable give us the life of Medgar Evers as told "in his own voice." Their introductions and notes recount how a man of the South rose through the ranks of his homeland's freedom fighters, working to establish NAACP chapters throughout the Mississippi Delta region. At the time no place seemed more bereft of hope for young African Americans than Mississippi. However, Evers gathered about him a strong group of like-minded men and women, blacks and whites, whom he led in securing suffrage, in documenting violence being perpetrated against innocent African Americans, and in pursuing the promise of equality in education and in the greater spheres of civic life." "In the summer of 1963 it seemed as if Evers' toils, and those of the NAACP, were beginning to bear fruit. Yet on June 11, a few hours after President John F. Kennedy's most impassioned speech to date about racial tolerance, Evers was killed by an assassin's bullet. His wife and children found him in the driveway bleeding and clutching a handful of t-shirts bearing the slogan "Jim Crow Must Go." The still smoking gun - bearing the fingerprints of a staunch white supremacist - was recovered moments later in some nearby bushes. His killer would not be incarcerated for thirty-one years."--BOOK JACKET.
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700 1 $aEvers-Williams, Myrlie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95094496
700 1 $aMarable, Manning,$d1950-2011.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79067618
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