Remembering Medgar Evers : Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement /

As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississipi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till's murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gwin, Minrose
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Evers, Medgar Wiley, > 1925-1963.
Evers, Medgar Wiley, > 1925-1963 > Songs and music.
Evers, Medgar Wiley, > 1925-1963 > Influence.
Biography.
Songs.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Jackson > Biographies.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs americains > Mississippi > Jackson > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Droits > Mississippi > Jackson > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Jackson > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > Jackson > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > Jackson > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > Jackson > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Jackson.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "He leaned across tomorrow" : Medgar Evers and the future
  • Where are the voices "coming from"? : James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, and the question of location
  • "Agitators" and aesthetics : Jackson's newspapers and the battle for collective memory
  • "It wears, it tears at the root of your heart" : Medgar Evers and the civil rights memoir
  • Music and Medgar Evers : the heartbeat of memory
  • The pocket and the heart.

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