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Title:
Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America
Author:
Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author. 
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
New York : Mariner Books, [2024]

©2024
Physical Description:
342 pages, 16 unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780063068797
Abstract:
Tracing the lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this 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.
Contents:
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.
Personal Subject:
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963. 

Evers-Williams, Myrlie. 
Corporate Subject:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography. 
Subject Term:
African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography. 

Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography. 

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. 

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. 
Geographic Term:
Mississippi -- Race relations. 
Genre:
Biographies. 
Language:
English
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