“Thank you very much, Mr. Evers,” Peters said. This perfectly encapsulated everything Medgar had fought for: the ballot and the betterment of the country, and Peters’s use of “Mr. Evers” was the honorific Blacks were denied when they shopped or worked in Mississippi. The interview was evidence that Medgar was on the verge of the kind of national prominence in death that he had not quite achieved in life.
