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5 de mai. de 2024 · Uploaded by TV Archive on May 5, 2024. Join The Apollo and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid for an exploration of her New York Times best-selling book, Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story...
Há 3 dias · Myrlie Evers-Williams (born March 17, 1933, Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.) is an African American activist and the wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, whose racially motivated murder in 1963 made him a national icon. In 1995–98 Evers-Williams was the first woman to head the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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3 de mai. de 2024 · Mariner Books. In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie Evers’ 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.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Left a widow with three children, Evers relocated to California. She published the memoir For Us, the Living (1967), earned a degree in sociology at Pomona College (1968), and made an unsuccessful bid for election to the
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21 de abr. de 2024 · Apr 21, 2024. MEDGAR & MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America. By Joy-Ann Reid. Mariner Books. 352 pages. $30. On June 12, 1963, some six months before the...
23 de abr. de 2024 · Remembering Medgar Evers. June 12, 2013. Erin Z. Bass. 1 Comment. 0. On June 12, 1963, Mississippi Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson. Evers was unloading a stack of “Jim Crow Must Go” t-shirts in his driveway just after midnight when Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens’ Council, shot him in ...
4 de mai. de 2024 · Published: May. 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM PDT. JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Medgar Evers is a civil rights icon and native Mississippian who died fighting for freedom. The trailblazer received the nation’s highest civilian honor. On Friday, Evers posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.