A Widow's Thirty-Year Vigil

Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into the driveway of his home on Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The NAACP field secretary had spent the evening at a rally. As he stepped from his car carrying a stack of "Jim Crow Must Go" T-shirts, a bullet from an Enfield rifle struck him in the back. His wife Myrlie and their three children rushed outside to find him crawling toward the door.…