TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Michael Vinson
TI  - Medgar Evers: Mississippi martyr 
SN  - 9781610754873
AV  - F349.J13 W55 2011eb
U1  - 323.092B 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Fayetteville
PB  - University of Arkansas Press
KW  - Evers, Medgar Wiley,
KW  - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Jackson
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Droits
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Jackson (Miss.)
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Multi-User
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Mama called him her special child": a lineage of resistance -- The "road to Jericho": from the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi -- The face of social change: the NAACP in Mississippi -- A bloodied and battered Mississippi: 1955 -- The black wave: conservatism meets determinism -- Riding the rails: freedom ride challenges and the Jackson movement -- Two can play the game: the gauntlet toss -- Mississippi, murder, and Medgar: our domestic killing fields
N2  - "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"--Publisher description
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