For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story is a film based on a book by William Peters and an American civil rights activist who was the chairwoman of what?
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story is a made-for-television biopic that aired on PBS on March 22, 1983. The film was based on the book, "For Us, the Living", by Myrlie Evers-Williams and William Peters.
Flossie Bailey Katherine "Flossie" Bailey (1895–February 6, 1952) was a civil rights and anti-lynching activist from Indiana. She established a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Marion, Indiana, in 1918 and became especially active fighting for justice and equality following the double lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in 1930. As president of the Indiana NAACP, Bailey was pivotal in lobbying for passage of a statewide anti-lynching law in Indiana in 1931 and advocated for a similar bill at the national level. She was also a recipient of the national NAACP's Madam C. J. Walker Medal.