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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

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A celebration of Medgar Evers and Myrlie Beasley, the lesser-known but essential Civil Rights icons, Medgar and Myrlie is a cinematic story with urgent and timely themes that still resonate with modern America.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

NAACP Image Award Winner

From Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of social justice biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.

"Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in l...

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