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     Howard Rollins

     Medgar Evers
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     Irene Cara

     Myrlie Evers
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     Roscoe Lee Browne

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     Margaret Avery

     Dottie
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     Laurence Fishburne

     Jimbo Collins
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     Gus Peters

     Sheriff

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   Is Medgar Evers based on a true story?

   • For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story: Directed by Michael Schultz. With Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne. Based on the life and times of NAACP field secretary and Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, assassinated in 1963.

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   What is Medgar Evers about?

   • The movie describes the workings of the legal system, a widow’s perseverance and crusade for justice, as well as a prosecutor’s commitment to righting an old wrong. Medgar Evers (1925 – 1963) was a black Civil Rights leader and the first Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP.

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   What books are based on the Medgar Evers case?

   • For Us, the Living by Myrlie Evers-Williams; Watch Me Fly by Myrlie Evers-Williams with Melinda Blau (Little Brown & Co. 1999); Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case, by Bobby DeLaughter (Scribners, 2001).

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   What is the legacy of Medgar Evers?

   • The legacy of Medgar Evers is everywhere present in the Mississippi of today. This peaceful man, who had constantly urged that “violence is not the way” but who paid for his beliefs with his life, was a prominent voice in the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

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   Who is Medgar Evers wife?

   • Howard Rollins stars as the assassinated NAACP civil rights activist Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP chairperson) Myrlie. The film concentrates on Medgar Evers, an ex-insurance agent turned activist, in the final years of his life as the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi.

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   Who plays Medgar Evers?

   • It was broadcast on the PBS television program American Playhouse on March 22, 1983. Howard Rollins stars as the assassinated NAACP civil rights activist Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP chairperson) Myrlie.

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   For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story is a 1983 American made-for-television biographical film based on the 1967 book, For Us, the Living, by Myrlie Evers-Williams and William Peters. It was broadcast on the PBS television program American Playhouse on March 22, 1983.

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   For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story: Directed by Michael Schultz. With Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne. Based on the life and times of NAACP field secretary and Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, assassinated in 1963.

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   • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

   • Director: Michael Schultz
   • Release Date: 1983-03-22

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   For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story. 1983 · 1 hr 27 min. TV-MA. Drama. The story of the NAACP’s first field secretary, whose battle for equality tragically ended with his assassination at the hand of a white supremacist.

   • Director: Michael Schultz
   • Start Date: January 1, 1983

   • Video Duration: 87 min

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   Introduced in a reflective essay written by the acclaimed Mississippi author Willie Morris, this account of Evers's professional and family life will cause readers to ponder how his tragic martyrdom quickened the pace of justice for black people while withholding justice from him for thirty years.

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   During the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s in Mississippi, Medgar Evers (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) rose from being an insurance agent to become one of the most integral...

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   • Director: Michael Schultz

   • Content Rating: TV-PG
   • Actors: Howard E. Rollins Jr.

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   This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.

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    From boycotting white merchants in the mid '50s to being a key figure in desegregating the University of Mississippi in 1962, Evers met success, and with it many enemies. When racists swarm his...