The Race She Refused to Abandon

Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle shot outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed to the carport and found her husband Medgar — the NAACP's field secretary for Mississippi — collapsed in the driveway, shot in the back by a white supremacist's bullet. Their three children, still awake watching President Kennedy's televised address on civil rights, scrambled to the floor as their mother cradled their dying father.…