On the evening of June 12th 1963, Medgar Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in the driveway of his Mississippi home. This work tells the story of Medgar Evers, who was one of the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights movement, through his letters, papers, writings and speeches.

Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable have assembled the previously untouched cache of Medgar's personal documents, writings and speeches. These remarkable pieces range from Medgar's monthly reports to the NAACP to his correspondence with luminaries of the time such as Robert Carter, General Counsel for the NAACP in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case.