60 years after her father, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was assassinated, Reena Evers-Everette shares a letter addressed to her mother, written from her childhood home in Jackson, Mississippi.
Reena Evers-Everette was 8 years old when her father, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was assassinated by a white supremacist 60 years ago outside his home. While the world mourned the death of a father of the movement, Evers-Everette was forced to confront the reality of her own personal loss, which forever altered her life., emerge as a significant civil rights figure in her own right.
The tragic end to daddy's life changed the trajectory of our lives with a new, unknown chapter. That day, I learned how to embrace the memories of our lives together, infuse them in my heart. After daddy was taken from us, you embodied the best of him, keeping his mission and legacy alive while never giving in to fear and hatred.
Daddy Medgar, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm and other husbands, fathers and sons are enshrined in history. But it is the mothers who have carried on. You, Mama, Aunt Coretta and Mama Betty, other wives, mothers and daughters were there, giving us strength and teaching the next generation to hold memories in our hearts.
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