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Notes Introduction Epigraph. http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/only-a-pawn-in-their-game (accessed May 30, 2011). 1. Myrlie Evers and William Peters, For Us, the Living (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967), 299–302; Myrlie Evers, “‘He Said He Wouldn’t Mind Dying—If . . . ,’” Life magazine, June 28, 1963, 37; and Myrlie Evers interview with Nicholas Hordern for the Delta Democrat-Times (Mississippi), Evers (Medgar Wiley and Myrlie Beasley) Papers, Box 3, Folder 48, Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Archives & Library Division, Special Collections Section, Jackson, Mississippi, Manuscript Collection, No. Z/2231.000/S, 4. 2. Evers and Peters, For Us, the Living, 302; Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 340. 3. Evers and Peters, For Us, the Living, 302. 4. Myrlie Evers interview with Nicholas Hordern, 4. For references to pregnancy , see Myrlie Evers-Williams and Melinda Blau, Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I was Meant to Be (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), 76. 5. Myrlie Evers, “‘He Said He Wouldn’t Mind Dying—If . . . ,’” Life magazine, June 28, 1963, 37. 6. Evers and Peters, For Us, the Living, 2, 302–303; Myrlie Evers interview with Nicholas Hordern, Evers (Medgar Wiley and Myrlie Beasley) Papers, Box 3, Folder 48; “M.W. Evers Shot Dead in Mississippi,” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1963, 1; and “N.A.A.C.P. Leader Slain in Jackson; Protests Mount,” New York Times, June 13, 1963, 1. 7. Throughout this work, I sometimes use the term Negro without quotation marks when period appropriate. 8. Harry N. MacLean, The Past is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption (New York: Basic Civitas, 2009), 4, 97, 152–154, and John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 251–252. 9. “Address by Medgar W. Evers, Mississippi Field Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at May 17, 1954 Celebration of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Branch N.A.A.C.P. . . . ,” May 18, 1958, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, Group III, Box C244 , Folder 2, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. (hereinafter cited as NAACP Papers, LOC), 10. 10. Charles Evers, interview with the author, cassette recording, February 4, 2005, Jackson, Mississippi. Tape in possession of the author. 317 Williams2RevisedPages:Layout 1 9/7/11 9:53 AM Page 317 11. Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford, eds., The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), xiii. 12. For a detailed discussion of the issue of civil rights memory, see the collection of essays in ibid. 13. “The Evers Legacy: Is NAACP leader remembered for his life or the way he died,” Daily Journal (Mississippi), January 30, 1994, newspaper clipping, Mississippi Department of Archive and History (MDAH), Subject File “Evers, Medgar, 1990.” 14. “July 4th set aside as Medgar Evers Day,” Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi), May 26, 1999, MDAH, Subject File, “Evers, Medgar, 1990.” 15. “Evers Given National Tribute,” Clarion-Ledger, June 17, 2003, and “Medgar Evers Observance OK’d by U.S. Senate,” June 13, 2003, MDAH, Subject File, “Evers, Medgar, 1990.” 16. Mississippi Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution Number 94, 03/HR03/R1864, MDAH, Subject File, “Evers, Medgar, 1990.” 17. “Mississippi Man” is a term used by the historian Ethel Murrain. See Ethel Patricia Churchill Murrain, “The Mississippi Man and His Message: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Cultural Themes in the Oratory of Medgar Wiley Evers, 1957– 1963” (Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 1990). 18. The idea of the responsibility of the living to remember the dead harkens back to the African belief that the dead only die when they fade from the memories and lives of the living. See, for example, Ra Un Nefer Amen, Metu Neter, vol. 1: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation (Brooklyn, NY: Khamit Media Trans Visions, 1990), 236–237. Africans and people of African descent, however, are not the only racial group to express or hold this belief. Such beliefs are also held by Native American and Asian cultures as well. 19. Claude Meillassoux, The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 144. 20. Medgar Evers, “Why I Live in Mississippi,” Ebony magazine, November...