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Alicia (PrettyBrownEyeReader)'s Reviews > Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
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This poetry collection tells different facets of the Medgar Evers’ story. He was the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi and was assassinated in 1963. The story is told through his assassin, assassin’s wives, Medgar’s brother Charles and his widow Myrlie. Though Medgar Evers doesn’t speak in these poems his presence is felt thus is unghosting.
Walker brilliantly shows the opposing views of the good old days of the South. In the poems, Ambiguity Over the Confederate Flag and One Mississippi, Two Mississippi’s, Walker shows how Whites romanticize the idea of the grand days of the South while Blacks face the brutality of the South. In the poem, N-Word Charles Evers speaks and gives a history lesson of the word and it’s awful uses. This book is a history lesson and poetry wrapped up in one.
Walker brilliantly shows the opposing views of the good old days of the South. In the poems, Ambiguity Over the Confederate Flag and One Mississippi, Two Mississippi’s, Walker shows how Whites romanticize the idea of the grand days of the South while Blacks face the brutality of the South. In the poem, N-Word Charles Evers speaks and gives a history lesson of the word and it’s awful uses. This book is a history lesson and poetry wrapped up in one.
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