Medgar Evers' Home

Medgar Evers was a Mississippi native, born in 1925. He was a US Army veteran who had fought in World War II. Upon returning to his Mississippi home, he was told to go to the back of the bus. After that incident, he served as field secretary in Mississippi. In June, 1963, Medgar was shot dead in his own front yard. 

In my novel, King of Soul, LSU students Donnie and Kevin take a road trip from Louisiana to Kent, Ohio in May, 1970. Along their travel path, they stop, in the night, at an historic spot in Jackson, Mississippi, the home of Medgar Evers. "I think it's that second or third house on the left," said Donnie." . . .with a carport, and a halfway-up brick wall on the front." He gazed into the driveway. "That's where he was when they shot him." "Damn," said Kevin. . . "in his own front yard! What is wrong with these people?" He stopped the car. The two young men stared at the house. . . "One thing that sticks in my memory - the next day. I had just walked in our house, which is only about three miles from here. . . When I went home that day, my mother said that our maid, Aleen, would not be coming in that day, because Medgar Evers had been shot. . ." But beyond the murderous crimes of this world, we Christians know that Medgar was taken up to heaven, to join the ranks of all men and women who have ever believed in Jesus for Resurrection. He had just left a Wednesday night church meeting when a racist murderer fired the shot that delivered the disciple of Christ into heaven. 

What's tragic is that the racist and magamaniac assassins of this world do not comprehend that we Christians will all be gathered together in the everlasting Life of Jesus Christ, who died a criminal death, and yet lived to tell about it.  Jesus said: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them; and they follow me; and they will never perish - no one will snatch them out of my hand!" King of Soul