DVD
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- EASTWOOD: Audiovisual Collection
For us, the living : the Medgar Evers story
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS)
Performers
Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne, Larry Fishburne, Janet MacLachlan, Thalmus Rasulala, Dick Anthony Williams, Paul Winfield.
Publication Information
Chicago, IL : Olive Films, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Medgar Evers was a former insurance salesman turned field secretary for the NAACP. He was instrumental in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi and organizing boycotts against discriminating southern white merchants. His battle for equality would shockingly end with his assassination at the hand of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the book by Mrs. Medgar Evers with William Peters.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.