JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jackson State University will produce a digital short about the connection between slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and author Margaret Walker Alexander.
“Medgar and Margaret: A Digital Short” will explore the intersections of their lives and shed light on their relationship and the relationship between activism and the arts, according to a news release from JSU.
The eBook is being produced in association with University Press of Mississippi.
Evers, state field secretary of the NAACP who worked to register blacks to vote, was shot to death in the driveway of his Jackson home in 1963.
Alexander is the author of the classic Civil War-era novel, “Jubilee.” She also founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life and Culture of Black People in 1968. She died in 1998.
