Remembering Medgar Evers
Subtitle: writing the long civil rights movement
By: Minrose Gwin
Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial lectures -- no. 53
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780820335636; 9780820335643
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Songs and music; Civil rights; Influence; Civil rights movements; History; African Americans; Biography; Civil rights workers
Description: As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississipi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till's murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith as the civil rights leader unloaded a stack of "Jim Crow Must Go" T-shirts in his own driveway. His was the first assassination of a high-ranking public figure in the civil rights movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "He leaned across tomorrow" : Medgar Evers and the future; title: Where are the voices "coming from"? : James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, and the question of location; title: "Agitators" and aesthetics : Jackson's newspapers and the battle for collective memory; title: "It wears, it tears at the root of your heart" : Medgar Evers and the civil rights memoir; title: Music and Medgar Evers : the heartbeat of memory; title: The pocket and the heart.