Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement by Minrose Gwin

Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement

Minrose Gwin

232 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till’s murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in ...

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