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For Us, the Living

English · Paperback / Softback

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An extraordinary woman tells a moving story of her courtship and marriage to heroic civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Myrlie Evers describes her husband's devotion to the quest for achieving civil rights for black Mississippians and his ultimate sacrifce on that hot summer night in 1963.

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Myrlie Evers-Williams is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as chairwoman of the NAACP and has published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband's legacy. William Ernest Peters Jr. (1921-2007) was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker who frequently covered race relations in the United States. His 1956 Redbook magazine article "Our Weapon Is Love" introduced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the philosophy of nonviolent resistance to the nation.

Product details

Authors Myrlie Evers, Myrlie B. Evers, Myrlie Evers-Williams
Assisted by Willis Morris (Illustration)
Publisher University Press Of Mississippi
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.02.1996
 
EAN 9780878058419
ISBN 978-0-87805-841-9
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 140 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
Weight 562 g
Series Banner Books
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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