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A Love Story At The Center Of The Civil Rights Movement
Listen to the episodeMSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tells the story of Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, and his wife Myrlie — a love story set against the Civil Rights Movement, the dangers of Medgar's work, the strain on their marriage, and how Myrlie's grief and fury after his 1963 assassination drove her to become an activist herself.
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