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...Years 1963-65 (Simon & Schuster; 746 pages; $30) keeps to the high ground. The moral and legal victories of the civil rights movement leave reasonable Americans feeling hopeful and good about themselves. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent confrontations continue to reassure the fearful suburbs. The bushwhacked Medgar Evers and the murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner become martyrs for an inspiring cause. We Shall Overcome is a crossover...
...when the New York Times reported that N.A.A.C.P. chairman Myrlie Evers-Williams expected the delegates to consider modifying the organization's position on integration, the news of an impending controversy became self-fulfilling. Evers-Williams, widow of the murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers, maintains she was misquoted. "Any advocacy organization must be open to discussion," she says. "But I see no changes coming about. It is an organization that still believes in integration...
...been the greatest day of my life," she told friends later. "Everywhere I went, I heard his voice on tapes." But after her husband's death, Shabazz didn't exactly linger in the past. She got a doctorate in education administration, eventually became director of public relations at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised the six daughters he left behind. Sometimes she also helped raise the grandson named after her slain husband, because life so often proved too much for his mother. Life was never too much for Betty...
...away from a tough crowd he was associating with in his neighborhood. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan expressed his sympathies for Betty Shabazz, with whom he had had a 32-year rift over the assassination of her husband Malcolm X. Mrs. Shabazz, an administrator at Medgar Evers College, believed Farrakhan was partly responsible for the fatal shooting of her husband...
...racist entitled to as fair a trial as a pornographer? The good people of Mississippi--all right, the bad white people--gave Byron De La Beckwith every benefit of the doubt in his 1964 trials for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Two hung juries and a quarter- century later, a Jackson prosecutor (Alec Baldwin, who's good in a tough role) reopens the case, goaded by Evers' widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg). He has a chance: this time the gabby, unrepentant Beckwith (James Woods) is facing a jury that is largely black...