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Author:

Gwin, Minrose.

Title:

Remembering Medgar Evers : writing the long civil rights movement / Minrose Gwin.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

©2013

Description:

232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Evers, Medgar Wiley,--1925-1963.
Evers, Medgar Wiley,--1925-1963--Influence.
Evers, Medgar Wiley,--1925-1963--Songs and music.
Civil rights movements--Jackson--Jackson--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Jackson--Jackson--History--20th century.
African American civil rights workers--Jackson--Jackson--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Jackson--Jackson--Biography.
Evers, Medgar Wiley,--1925-1963.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Songs.
Mississippi--Jackson.
1900 - 1999
Biography.
History.

Notes:

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.

Contents:

"He leaned across tomorrow" : Medgar Evers and the future -- Where are the voices "coming from"? : James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, and the question of location -- "Agitators" and aesthetics : Jackson's newspapers and the battle for collective memory -- "It wears, it tears at the root of your heart" : Medgar Evers and the civil rights memoir -- Music and Medgar Evers : the heartbeat of memory -- The pocket and the heart.

Series:

Mercer University Lamar Memorial lectures ; no. 53

ISBN:

0820335649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820335643 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820335630 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820335636 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793576323

LCCN:

2012022118

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)