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Medgar EversMississippi martyr /

Evers, Medgar Wiley, (1925-1963.)

Medgar EversMississippi martyr /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medgar EversMichaelVinson Williams.
Reminder of title:	Mississippi martyr /
Author:	Williams, Michael Vinson,
Published:	Fayetteville :University of Arkansas Press,2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 434 p.) :ill., map.
Subject:	African AmericansCivil rights20th century.Mississippi
Subject:	Jackson (Miss.)Fiction.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781610754873 (electronic bk.)

Medgar EversMississippi martyr /
Williams, Michael Vinson,1971-

Medgar EversMississippi martyr /[electronic resource] :MichaelVinson Williams. - Fayetteville :University of Arkansas Press,2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 434 p.) :ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-415) and index.

"Mama called him her special child": a lineage of resistance -- The "road to Jericho": from the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi -- The face of social change: the NAACP in Mississippi -- A bloodied andbattered Mississippi: 1955 -- The black wave: conservatism meets determinism -- Riding the rails: freedom ride challenges and the Jackson movement -- Two can play the game: the gauntlet toss -- Mississippi, murder, and Medgar: our domestic killing fields.

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 those who challenged the status quo. Nonetheless, Evers consistently investigated the rapes, murders, beatings, and lynchings of black Mississippians and reported them 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 school segregation, and devoted himself to a careerthat cost him his life. This biography of a lesser-known but seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Evers's widow, hisremaining siblings, friends, schoolmates, andfellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. Hisstory is a testament to the important role that grassroots activism played in exacting social change.--From publisher description.

ISBN: 9781610754873 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

626318
Evers, Medgar Wiley,
1925-1963.Subjects--Corporate Names:

626319
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
--Biography.Subjects--Topical Terms:

626320
African Americans
--Civil rights--Mississippi--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

566381
Jackson (Miss.)
--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: F349.J13 / W55 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 323.092

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