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Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
por Reid, Joy-Ann
- Novo
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Novo/New
- ISBN 10
- 0063068796
- ISBN 13
- 9780063068797
- Livreiro
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar's secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation, lynching, violence, and sheer despair within their state's 'black belt.' They fought to desegregate the intractable University of Mississippi, organized picket lines and boycotts, despite repeated terroristic threats, including the 1962 firebombing of their home, where they lived with their three young children.
On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers became the highest profile victim of Klan-related assassination of a black civil rights leader at that time; gunned down in the couple's driveway in Jackson. In the wake of his tragic death, Myrlie carried on their civil rights legacy; writing a book about Medgar's fight, trying to win a congressional seat, and becoming a leader of the NAACP in her own right.
In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie's relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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- Livreiro
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 66542
- Título
- Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
- Autor
- Reid, Joy-Ann
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 2
- Edição
- Third printing
- ISBN 10
- 0063068796
- ISBN 13
- 9780063068797
- Editorial
- Mariner Books
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2024
- Palavras-chave
- civil rights; 1960s; african american history; rwsummer2024
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