Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America Juvenile Fiction African American & Black Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings When Nubia's best friend

When Nubia's best friend

Emotionally stirring

From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories

A 2015 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America Juvenile Fiction African American & Black Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings When Nubia's best friend#1 New York Times Bestseller NAACP Image Award Winner From Joy Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home. Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his