’Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement.’ –The New York Times Book Review
’A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.’–Dan Rather
’Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man’s history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass.’ –David Levering Lewis
’Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle.’ –The seattle times
Innehållsförteckning
My Pact with Medgar.
Mama, Daddy, and Old Mark Thomas.
The Wall of Separation.
Whites Messed with Us, But We Couldn’t Mess with Them.
Felicia.
Wheeling and Dealing at Alcorn.
Crossing the Line.
The Pure of Heart: Medgar Joins the NAACP Full-Time.
Terrible Years.
Chicago: The Chances I Took.
I Trusted to God and My .45 Pistol.
Turn Me Loose.
You Won’t Die in Vain, Medgar.
Taking Over the Mississippi NAACP.
Two Lost Brothers.
Hate Goes on Trial.
Interrupting the Green.
The Next Step up the Ladder.
Lyndon Johnson Said, ’We Shall Overcome.’ Black Power.
Losing Martin, Losing Bobby.
Running for Congress: Evers for Everybody.
Call Me ’The Mayor.’ Fayette Was Our Israel.
A Black-Skinned Man Running for Governor.
Scolding Richard Nixon about Watergate.
Why I Became a Republican.
The Bridge That Carried Us Across.
Have No Fear.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.
Om författaren
CHARLES EVERS lives in Fayette, Mississippi, where he served as mayor for twenty-five years. ANDREW SZANTON is a former oral historian at the Smithsonian Institution. His first book was Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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