This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Acting
Howard Rollins captures Evers' exhaustion and warmth before the iconography hardened.
Direction
Michael Schultz keeps it small-scale, refusing to sanctify — just humanize.
Director
Michael Schultz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laurence Fishburne appears here in an early role as Jimbo Collins, years before his own turn in civil rights cinema.
Produced for PBS but barely distributed theatrically, this film vanished despite featuring future Oscar nominees — a casualty of how American media archives Black history.
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