For Us, The Living, and for Medgar.

June 12, 2020 by Tom Stewart

He was late again. His job was field secretary of the NAACP, a tough job in any circumstances, but this was 1963, and Jackson Mississippi. There had already been two attempts on his life in just the last month and constant death threats, both by mail and delivered over the phone by people trying to disguise their voices. Some didn't even bother to try.

Emmett Till, Whom They Came For In the Night

September 13, 2019 by Tom Stewart

August, 24th, 1955, a young Chicago boy died in Mississippi. No not 'died', that sounds almost like an accident, like it just sort of happened. It was not accident; white men came for him in the night demanding vengeance over a kid stunt, the crime of whistling at a white woman on a dare.