Mrs Medgar Evers / For Us the Living / Signed 1st Edition in DJ / 1967 VG copy

For Us, the Living [Signed by Evers]. Medgar [Myrlie] Evers and William Peters Title: For Us, the Living [Signed by Evers] Publication: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Description: Very Good / Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Jacket margins rubbed with a number of small closed tears and creasing, faint damp stain to spine panel not affecting cloth; Very Good and sound overall.

Signed by Myrlie Evers on title page. Memoir of the author's late husband the Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers who served as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Medgar Evers was fatally shot in the back outside his home in 1963 at the age of thirty-seven. Thanks to Myrlie's efforts a local Klansman was finally convicted of murder in 1994. Subject: Biography / Memoir, Black Studies / Black Arts and Artists, Radicalism / Social Movements, Signed.

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