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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gwin, Minrose
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 Beckwith as the civil rights leader unloaded a stack of "Jim Crow Must Go" T-shirts in his own driveway. His was the first assassination of a high-ranking public figure in the civil rights movement.
Item Description:"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780820335636

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