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Director
  
Michael Schultz

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7.2/10
IMDb

Genres
  
Drama, Biographical film

Language
  
English


Writer
  
Myrlie Evers-Williams
,
William Peters
,
Ossie Davis

Release date
  
March 22, 1983 (1983-03-22)

Cast
  
Howard Rollins
(Medgar Evers),
Irene Cara
(Myrlie Evers),
Margaret Avery
(Dottie),
Roscoe Lee Browne
(Gloster Current),
Laurence Fishburne
(Jimbo Collins),
Janet MacLachlan
(Mildred)

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For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story is a made-for-television biopic that aired on PBS on March 22, 1983. The film was based on the book, For Us, the Living, by Myrlie Evers-Williams and William Peters.

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Synopsis

Howard Rollins stars as 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 desegragating the University of Mississippi in 1962. His home in Jackson, Mississippi, is besieged by bigots, and he and his family are threatened with dire consequences. Myrtle Evers with her children were often at home alone when fire bombs and bricks were thrown against their home and through their windows. However, The Everses continued to work towards the goal of integrating the racially polarized. Medgar Evers truly believed The Constitution to include the rights within were for each American citizen, no matter color, age, class or education. On June 12, 1963, however, the 37-year-old Medgar Evers is shot to death in front of his home by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.

Cast and characters

  • Location: The scene where Medgar Evers solicit community leaders and community members to sign the first petition, actually was filmed in an Atlanta, Georgia Church Located on 470 Whitehall Street: Denson Temple Peoples Free Methodist Church.
  • The Cast Member Selema Perry Berry was a member of Denson Temple Peoples Free Methodist Church as Superintendent of Sunday School. She sat on the back row with her Pastor Rev. James Brown.

    • References

    For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story Wikipedia
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    For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story IMDb For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story themoviedb.org


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