Medgar Evers : Mississippi Martyr.

By: Williams, Michael VinsonMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781610754873Subject(s): African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography | Evers, Medgar Wiley, -- 1925-1963 | Jackson (Miss.) -- Biography | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medgar Evers : Mississippi MartyrDDC classification: 323.092 LOC classification: F349Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Didication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Prelude to Martyrdom -- Map of Mississippi -- 1. "Mama called him her special child": A Lineage of Resistance -- 2. The "Road to Jericho": From the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi -- 3. The Face of Social Change: The NAACP in Mississippi -- 4. A Bloodied and Battered Mississippi: 1955 -- 5. The Black Wave: Conservatism Meets Determinism -- 6. Riding the Rails: Freedom Ride Challenges and the Jackson Movement -- 7. Two Can Play the Game: The Gauntlet Toss -- 8. Mississippi, Murder, and Medgar: Our Domestic Killing Fields -- Conclusion: It Is for Us to Remember the Dead -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay: Medgar Wiley Evers as a Historical "Person of Interest" -- Bibliography.
Summary: Michael Vinson Williams is assistant professor of history and African American studies at Mississippi State University.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Didication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Prelude to Martyrdom -- Map of Mississippi -- 1. "Mama called him her special child": A Lineage of Resistance -- 2. The "Road to Jericho": From the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi -- 3. The Face of Social Change: The NAACP in Mississippi -- 4. A Bloodied and Battered Mississippi: 1955 -- 5. The Black Wave: Conservatism Meets Determinism -- 6. Riding the Rails: Freedom Ride Challenges and the Jackson Movement -- 7. Two Can Play the Game: The Gauntlet Toss -- 8. Mississippi, Murder, and Medgar: Our Domestic Killing Fields -- Conclusion: It Is for Us to Remember the Dead -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay: Medgar Wiley Evers as a Historical "Person of Interest" -- Bibliography.

Michael Vinson Williams is assistant professor of history and African American studies at Mississippi State University.

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