Dernoral Davis, Ph. Books Chafe, William. New York: Oxford University Press, Delaughter, Bobby. New York: Scribner, Dittmer, John. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Evers, Myrlie with William Peters. For Us the Living. New York: Doubleday, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, Johnston, Erle. Forest, Mississippi: Lake Haber Publishers, Lawson, Steven, and Payne, Charles. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, McMillen, Neil, ed.
Mendelsohn, Jack. New York: Harper and Row, Mottley, Constance Baker. Equal Justice Under Law. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Numan, Bartley. Payne, Charles. Berkeley: University of California Press, Salter, John. Articles Crittendon, Denise. Mitchell, Dennis. Wynn, Linda. M is for Mississippi and Murder. This NAACP publication was based on the investigations of Medgar Evers, the newly appointed field secretary for the civil rights organization in Mississippi.
The pamphlet provided details on three racial murders in The three victims were George W. At least ten other Black men were racial murder victims during the s in Mississippi. Theme and Time Period African American. Bridging Hardship, A World War II soldier At the end of his sophomore year of high school and several months before his eighteenth birthday, Evers volunteered and was inducted into the United States Army in A college student Evers spent the next decade preparing to become part of the vanguard for change in Mississippi.
NAACP state field secretary The law school application soon catapulted Evers from relative obscurity to broader name recognition and to serious leadership consideration within the emerging state Civil Rights Movement. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, a former governor of Mississippi. Courtesy, U. Bibliography: Books Chafe, William. He recruited for the NAACP and helped organize a successful boycott against area gas station owners who denied African Americans use of restroom facilities. In January the Evers family relocated to Jackson.
As field secretary Evers investigated instances of police brutality, murder, voter discrimination, economic intimidation, rape, and lynching, including the abduction and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Money. Evers was also responsible for recruiting and retaining members for the NAACP and for providing African Americans with various forms of assistance. By the early s Evers had shifted toward direct action as the primary method for achieving social, political, and economic equality—for example, by organizing boycotts of discriminatory local stores and national chains in downtown Jackson.
He also served as an adviser to James Meredith during his effort to integrate the University of Mississippi and supported student sit-in and read-in demonstrations in the state capital.
In August the Everses petitioned the Jackson Separate School District to reorganize the schools under its jurisdiction on a nonsegregated basis. By June Evers had spent almost nine years working to bring national attention to the lack of respect for human life and violence—both random and deliberate—perpetrated against black Mississippians. His father was Houston Wells the neighbor who fired his shotgun that night and drove Medgar Evers to the hospital in his station wagon. My friend Medgar told me this story and then I saw a video with Mrs.
Evers-Williams and she said the same thing verbatim…. I would like to see and read all of these books. Some of this I never knew, but we cannot stop the fight for equality. Too many lives have been lost for freedom. Your email address will not be published. Search for:. La Guerra con Mexico Teaching Activity.
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