Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr

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Label

Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr

Title remainder

Mississippi martyr

Statement of responsibility

Michael Vinson Williams

Creator

• Williams, Michael Vinson, 1971-

Subject

• African American civil rights workers
• African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi | Jackson -- Biography
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Biography
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Civil rights workers
• Civil rights workers -- Mississippi | Jackson -- Biography
• Evers, Medgar W, 1925-1963
• Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
• 1900-1999
• History
• Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography
• Mississippi
• Mississippi -- Jackson
• Mississippi -- Race relations
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography
• Race relations
• Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963

Genre

• History
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and '60s, a place and time known for the brutal murders of those who challenged the status quo. Nonetheless, Evers consistently investigated the rapes, murders, beatings, and lynchings of black Mississippians and reported them to a national audience, all the while organizing economic boycotts, sit-ins, and street protests in Jackson as the NAACP's first full-time Mississippi field secretary. He organized and participated in voting drives and nonviolent direct-action protests, joined lawsuits to overturn school segregation, and devoted himself to a career that cost him his life. This biography of a lesser-known but seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Evers's widow, his remaining siblings, friends, schoolmates, and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. His story is a testament to the important role that grassroots activism played in exacting social change.--From publisher description

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 323.092
• B

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F349.J13

LC item number

W55 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography