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

Title:

ISBN:

9780063068797

Personal Author:

Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Mariner Books, [2024]

Physical Description:

342 pages, 16 unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

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.

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.

Personal Subject:

Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963.

Evers-Williams, Myrlie.

Corporate Subject:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

Mississippi -- Race relations

Subject Term:

African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Jackson -- Biography

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

Married people--Mississippi--Jackson -- Biography

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