"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
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