Interview with Myrlie Evers
QUESTION 13
INTERVIEWER:
SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS MOVE TO…
CAMERA CREW MEMBER:
SPEED.
Orlando Bagwell:
…AND I'D LIKE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE DEATH OF TILL AND UM, INCLUDING IN THAT WHETHER YOU WERE FRIGHTENED BY IT AND, AND UH, WHAT YOUR FEELINGS WERE IN TERMS OF IT BEING IN MISSISSIPPI AND ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
Myrlie Evers:
The Emmett Till case uh, was one that rocked uh, I think, everyone in Mississippi. Uh, it certainly shook us to the realization that uh, age had nothing to do with uh, young victims of uh, of segregation and, and, and racism. Medgar um, was the field secretary for the NAACP and had been working uh, there in the state. He and Amzie Moore and some others always made investigations in, in, in the uh, in the Delta.
CAMERA CREW MEMBER:
THIS WILL BE TAKE EIGHT.


