For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)

Directors

Michael Schultz

Cast

Howard Rollins, Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne

The story

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. In 1954, he is involved in a boycott against white merchants and was instrumental in eventually desegregating the University of Mississippi in 1962.

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