FOR US THE LIVING

New York: Ace Books, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 317 pp. Ace Book 24970. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Medgar Evers, a tireless civil rights activist in Mississippi, was murdered in 1963 by a Ku Klux Klan killer. About For Us the Living, the New York Times wrote: "Mrs Evers, who wrote this book with William Peters... could have presented an emotional, slick history of the life and death of her husband, and she would have been congratulated, but, like her husband, she chose to do a thorough job. She has written a book that is at the same time a beautiful story of the love between a man and a woman (this itself should be educational for white Americans who cannot believe that Negroes have human emotions); a textbook on how it was to be not white in Mississippi, and a self-searching essay on how to be a normal human being married to a man devoted to freedom. For Mrs. Evers shows us a normal human being who gets tired and lonely, who sometimes wants to take a vacation from the struggle and devote full time to ironing and cooking and raising a family, but who learns, through being married to someone like Medgar Evers, to transcend herself.".