TY - BOOK AU - Reid,Joy-Ann Lomena TI - Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America SN - 9780063068797 PY - 2024///] CY - New York PB - Mariner Books KW - Evers, Medgar Wiley, KW - Evers-Williams, Myrlie. KW - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People KW - Biography KW - African American civil rights workers KW - Mississippi KW - Jackson KW - Civil rights workers KW - Married people KW - Civil rights movements KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Race relations KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-328) and index; Prologue: Love -- Mississippi Goddamn -- Medgar and Myrlie -- Emmett till -- The house on Guynes Street -- Mississippi freedom -- Freedom from fear -- Countdown -- How to be a civil rights widow -- A tristate conspiracy? -- Justice -- Carnegie Hall -- Many thanks -- Notes -- Index N2 - Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today ER -