
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement." --The New York Times Book Review"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure... an important slice of American history."--Dan Rather"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass." --David Levering Lewis"Truly spellbinding... relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle." --The seattle times
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Collecting History: A Collaboratorâs Introduction
- Prologue: What It Meant to Be an Evers
- 1 My Pact with Medgar
- 2 Mama, Daddy, and Old Mark Thomas
- 3 The Wall of Separation
- 4 Whites Messed with Us, But We Couldnât Mess with Them
- 5 Felicia
- 6 Wheeling and Dealing at Alcorn
- 7 Crossing the Line
- 8 The Pure of Heart: Medgar Joins the NAACP Full-Time
- 9 Terrible Years
- 10 Chicago: The Chances I Took
- 11 I Trusted to God and My .45 Pistol
- 12 Turn Me Loose
- 13 You Wonât Die in Vain, Medgar
- 14 Taking Over the Mississippi NAACP
- 15 Two Lost Brothers
- 16 Hate Goes on Trial
- 17 Interrupting the Green
- 18 The Next Step up the Ladder
- 19 Lyndon Johnson Said, âWe Shall Overcomeâ
- 20 Black Power
- 21 Losing Martin, Losing Bobby
- 22 Running for Congress: Evers for Everybody
- 23 Call Me âThe Mayorâ
- 24 Fayette Was Our Israel
- 25 A Black-Skinned Man Running for Governor
- 26 Scolding Richard Nixon about Watergate
- 27 Why I Became a Republican
- 28 The Bridge That Carried Us Across
- 29 Have No Fear
- Selected Bibliography
- Index