Grief That Learned to Fly

On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and found her husband, Medgar — the NAACP's field secretary for Mississippi — collapsed near the front door, shot in the back. He had crawled from the driveway, still clutching a stack of NAACP t-shirts. Their three children had heard the shot.…