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Author Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author.

Title Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America / Joy-Ann Reid.

Publication Info. New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
©2024
2 holds on first copy returned of 30 copies

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  323.092 REID    DUE 05-10-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  92 BIOGRAPHY EVERS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. EVERS    In Processing
 Bristol, Main Library - New Materials  B EVERS FAMILY    DUE 05-08-24
 Bristol, Manross Branch - New Materials  B EVERS FAMILY    DUE 04-22-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Lower Level  323.092 REID    DUE 05-03-24
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - New Materials  BIOGRAPHY EVERS FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials  B EVERS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  B EVERS FAMILY    DUE 04-30-24
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  B EVERS REI NEWBKS    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 342 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-328) and index.
Subject Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963.
Evers-Williams, Myrlie.
African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography.
Married people -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Medgar and Myrlie
ISBN 9780063068797 (hardcover)
0063068796 (hardcover)
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