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Title Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America / Joy-Ann Reid.
Author Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author.
Publication Info. New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
©2024
Book Cover
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  323.092 REI    Checked Out
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  323.092 REI    Checked Out
 South Creek  323.092 REI    Checked Out
 Southeast  323.092 REI    Checked Out
Edition First edition.
Description 342 pages, 16 unnumbred pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and index.
Subject Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963.
Evers-Williams, Myrlie.
African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography.
Married people -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780063068797 (hardcover) : $30.00
0063068796 (hardcover)