For us, the living

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Label

For us, the living

Statement of responsibility

Myrlie B. Evers, with William Peters ; with an introduction by Willie Morris

Creator

• trueEvers-Williams, Myrlie

Contributor

• Peters, William, 1921-2007

Subject

• African Americans
• trueAfrican Americans
• trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• trueAfrican Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi
• African Americans -- Mississippi | Jackson -- Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies
• trueBiography
• Bèurgerrechtsbewegung
• trueCivil Rights Movement
• trueCivil rights
• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Civil rights workers
• trueCivil rights workers -- Biography
• Civil rights workers -- Mississippi | Jackson -- Biography
• Erlebnisbericht
• Evers, Medgar W
• Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
• Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
• History
• Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography
• trueJackson, Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Mississippi
• trueMississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Mississippi -- Jackson
• trueMississippi -- Race relations
• Mord
• trueMurder victims
• 1900-1999
• Race relations
• Schwarze
• trueSelf-sacrifice
• Staat Mississippi
• trueViolence against African Americans
• trueRace relations

Genre

• trueBiography
• trueHistory
• trueBiographies

Language

eng

Summary

""Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband." Myrlie Evers said this in 1967 when her brave book was first published. In 1994, at long last after three controversial trials, justice was served when the killer was convicted and given a life sentence." "At thirty-seven Medgar Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP, died in a horrifying act of political violence. Outside his home, in the summer of 1963, he was gunned down by a midnight assassin." "This memoir by an extraordinary woman tells a moving story of her courtship and marriage and of her husband's unrelenting devotion to the quest of achieving civil rights for thousands of black Mississippians." "Readers of Myrlie Evers's story will note an aching piece of irony. Her husband's tragic martyrdom quickened the pace of justice for black people while withholding it from him for thirty years."--Jacket

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction