Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Minrose C. GwinSeries:Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures #53Publish date:2013-02-25Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820335643ISBN-10:820335649UPC:9780820335643Book Category:Social Science, Political Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Civil Rights, Social ActivistsBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC571MQPZ7
As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820335643ISBN-10:820335649UPC:9780820335643Book Category:Social Science, Political Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Civil Rights, Social ActivistsBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC571MQPZ7
MINROSE GWIN is the Kenan Eminent Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is coeditor of The Literature of the American South and the Southern Literary Journal. Her most recent books are The Queen of Palmyra (a novel), Wishing for Snow (a memoir), and The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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