03167nam a22003737a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260908133957.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 260518s2025 nyu|||||r|||| 00| 0 eng d 9780063068803 006306880X eng DLC eng 002 F 349 R356m 2025 Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- 48510 Medgar and Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America / Joy-Ann Reid. Medgar and Myrlie New York : Mariner Books, 2025. 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and index. Contenidos : 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 Myrlie 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. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 50380 Evers-Williams, Myrlie 50381 Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Color (NAACP) 50382 Activistas de los derechos humanos 39757 Familias afroamericanas Historia 50383 Siglo XX Afroamericanos Condiciones sociales 7047 Siglo XX Misisipi Relaciones raciales 50384 Siglo XX Estados Unidos Relaciones raciales 702 Siglo XX lcc BK llh 127135 127135 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2026-05-18 0 002 F 349 R356m 2025 00000200114 2026-05-18 18:18:00 1 2026-05-18 BK