Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

What are Reid’s key research methods and sources, and how do those add to the book’s credibility as a historical account? What are her key objectives in writing Medgar Evers’s and Myrlie Williams’s biographies?

Describe the social conditions against which Evers and Williams worked as activists. What are Reid’s key arguments about the history of the Jim Crow system, and how did Evers’s and Williams’s upbringings empower them to fight it?

Why was Evers’s experience as a Black veteran crucial to the development of his political consciousness? How did the postwar years define the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s?