The trouble started as soon as they got close to his hometown. “When we were almost there, the driver asked me to move . . . to the back. Well, I wouldn’t do it,” he said. “Hell, I’d just been on a battlefield for my country. When we reached my hometown, the driver signaled to some men in town. They came on the bus and beat me within an inch of my life.” Medgar actually told the story laughing. “It was the worst beating I ever had,” he said. “But after that, I was a different man.”
