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Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America / Cover Image Book

Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America / Joy-Ann Reid

Medgar and Myrlie (other title)
Reid, Joy-Ann Lomena, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063068797
  • ISBN: 0063068796
  • Physical Description: 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-328) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject: Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963.
Evers-Williams, Myrlie.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
Married people > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 8 of 33 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.

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Gunn Memorial Public Library 323.092 REI (Text) 34621991238273 Adult Nonfiction Available -