“A few close friends said, ‘Please stop. Don’t pursue this anymore,’” Myrlie said. “Medgar’s answer was, ‘I’m in this until they—meaning white authorities—stop me.’ That broke my heart, because I knew that he meant every word he was saying, and he intended to put the children that I had given birth to . . . in danger. I learned that Medgar Evers would do as his heart, his soul, his mind persuaded him to do.” And come what may, “our children, Darrell and Reena, were going to be [among] those first students integrating those schools.”
