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 lynchings 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 path that
eventually cost him his life.
This biography of an important 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.
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