The Driveway on Delta Drive
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander...
This is a contemporary on sacrifice and justice, drawing on John 15:13.
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi. He carried a stack of NAACP t-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go." Inside the house, his wife Myrlie and their three children — Darrell, Reena, and James — were still awake, having just watched President Kennedy's televised address calling civil rights a moral issue.…
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