via: University of New Orleans
A new book of poetry focuses on the life and death of civil rights
leader Medgar Evers through a series of imagined monologues. Evers was
the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi. He organized boycotts to
end segregation and helped integrate the University of Mississippi. But
he was gunned down in his driveway by a white supremacist Byron De La
Beckwith in 1963. A new book called "Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of
Medgar Evers" re-creates the voices of those closest to Evers - his wife
and his brother, and also his killer. Listen to Interview
No comments :
Post a Comment