03021nam a22003377a 4500003000800000005001700008006001900025007000300044008004100047020001800088020001500106040001300121041000800134050002600142100002600168245009800194246002200292260003900314300007100353504006700424505027100491520154000762600003702302600002802339610007702367650004002444650005002484650005202534651004602586651005102632BJBSDDR20260908133957.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta260518s2025    nyu|||||r|||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780063068803  a006306880X  bengcDLC  aeng14a002 F 349bR356m 20251 aReid, Joy-Ann,d1968-10aMedgar and Myrlie : bMedgar Evers and the love story that awakened America / cJoy-Ann Reid.3 aMedgar and Myrlie  aNew York :bMariner Books, c2025.  a342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations ;c21 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and index.0 aContenidos : 
Prologue: love
1. Mississippi Goddamn..
2. Medgar and Myrlie
3. Emmett Till
4. The house on Guynes Street
5. Mississippi freedom
6. Freedom from fear
7. Countdown
8. How to be a civil rights widow
9. A tristate conspiracy?
10. Justice
11. Carnegie Hall  aMyrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. 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.14aEvers, Medgar Wiley, d1925-196314aEvers-Williams, Myrlie 24aAsociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Color (NAACP)  4aActivistas de los derechos humanos  4aFamilias afroamericanas xHistoria ySiglo XX 4aAfroamericanos xCondiciones socialesySiglo XX 4aMisisipi xRelaciones raciales ySiglo XX 4aEstados UnidosxRelaciones racialesySiglo XX