In the early morning hours of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was shot in the carport of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by an assassin with links to Mississippi’s White Citizens’ Council and the Ku Klux Klan. Medgar was just thirty-seven years old. Myrlie, who was only thirty, became the widowed single mother of three young children, and the frightened and despondent but determined author of her martyred husband’s legacy.
