The fundamental argument of this book is that Medgar's activism, from his role in investigating the Emmett Till lynching and other racist murders of Black Mississippians to the boycott movement he orchestrated in Jackson, was the foundation upon which the later efforts by SNCC, CORE, and other organizations were built. James Baldwin had it right. Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory, as contemporaries who fought the same demons of white supremacy during the same perilous era, often with overlapping tactics. Medgar Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America: Mississippi.