For Us, the Living
Memoir
By: Myrlie Evers
Date: 1967
Source: Evers, Mrs. Medgar, with William Peters. For Us, the Living. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967, 297–304.
About the Author: Myrlie Evers (1933?–), now Myrlie Evers-Williams, was the first woman to head the NAACP. After her husband, Medgar Evers, was murdered, she moved to California, working for the Claremont Colleges and running for public office. She also worked for Atlantic Richfield and was a commissioner on the Board of Public Works in the city of Los Angeles. She was instrumental in bringing her husband's killer, Byron de la Beckwith, to justice in 1994.
Introduction
After the Civil War (1861–1865), the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, often called the civil rights amendments, were enacted. The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed equal treatment under the law, and the Fifteenth...
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