Medgar Evers

Byron De La Beckwith

(Smith Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)

Georgia:

The life and murder of Medgar Evers

Episode sources:

1. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, by Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable

2. “Myrlie Evers opens up about marriage to civil rights icon Medgar Evers” CBS Mornings, June 12 2023

3. “State checked possible jurors in Evers slaying” by Jerry Mitchell (The Clarion-Ledger, October 1, 1989)

4. “Beckwith leaves Aberdeen, enters VA hospital in Jackson” by Beverly Pettigrew Kraft (The Clarion-Ledger, March 4, 1993)

5. “South looks anew at unresolved murders of the ‘60s” by Ed Timms (Dallas Morning News, January 6,1990)

6. “Medgar Evers Murdered” (SNCC)

7. “Medgar Evers” (Zinn Education Project)

8. “Medgar Evers and the Origin of the Civil RIghts Project in Mississippi” by Dernoral Davis (Mississippi History Now, October 2023)

9. “Darrell Evers, Son of Slain Civil Rights Activist, Dies” (The Washington Post vis News Services, February 19, 2001)

10. “Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home” (National Parks Service)

11. “Sovereignty Commission Online” (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)

12. “Medgar Evers' Son Honors Civil Rights Icon In His Own Way” by Karen Grigsby Bates (NPR, August 12, 2013)

13. “Delta Airlines and the Evers Family” (The Center for Civil and Human Rights)

Karen:

The story of nurse Cliff Morrison and Ward 5B

Episode sources:

1. “They needed to feel loved": How one nurse revolutionized patient care during the AIDS crisis by Cliff Morrison and Brooke Porter Katz (Johnson & Johnson) 2019

2. “Cliff Morrison Part 1: The World’s First AIDS Ward (Bammer and Me: Stories
   from the LGBTQ Community) 2019

3. “Cliff Morrison Part 2: The World’s First AIDS Ward (Bammer and Me: Stories
   from the LGBTQ Community) 2020

4. “They Did Not Die Peacefully” by Cliff Morrison (A Living History) 2011

5. “Ward 5B: Nurses Gave AIDS Patients the Care Others Would Not” (Hospital Watchdog)

6. “How 1970s Christian crusader Anita Bryant helped spawn Florida's LGBTQ culture war” by Jillian Eugenios (NBC News) 2022

7. “Ward 5B: A Model of Care for Aids” by Katherine Bishop (New York Times) 1985

8. “1st AIDS Ward '5B' Fought To Give Patients Compassionate Care, Dignified Deaths” by Terry Gross (Fresh Air/NPR) 2019

9. “This Pioneering Nurse Tells the Story of Opening the United States’ First AIDS Ward in San Francisco” (Global Citizen)

10. “AIDS WARD 5B/5A ARCHIVES 1983-2003” (San Francisco General Hospital)

11. “The Nurses of Ward 5B” by Aaron Severson (Working Nurse) 2019

12. “Alison Moed & Hank Plante Speak on the Documentary ‘5B: Sharing Untold Stories’” (BUILD Series) 2019

13. “The Unbroken Chain: Three Decades of HIV/AIDS Nursing” (UCSF School of Nursing) 2014

14. “AIDS at 40: Parallels of Living Through AIDS, Surviving COVID-19” by Cliff Morrison (UCSF) 2021

15. “What Working As The Head Nurse In The Country's First AIDS Ward Was Like” Cory Stieg (Refinery29) 2019

16. “How AIDS Remained an Unspoken—But Deadly—Epidemic for Years” by Joseph Bennington-Castro (History) 2023

17. “HIV Symptoms” by Kendall K. Morgan (WebMD) 2024

18. “The AIDS Epidemic in the United States, 1981-early 1990s” (CDC)

19. “A Timeline of HIV and AIDS” (HIV.gov)

20. “Living with HIV” (Be In the Know)

21. “The History of HIV Treatment: Antiretroviral Therapy and More” by Stephanie Watson and Keri Wiginton (WebMD) 2024

22. “HIV and AIDS” (World Health Organization) 2024

23. “Ways to Stop HIV Stigma and Discrimination (CDC)

Giving Corner

Cliff Morrison

(Dominique Charriau / Getty)

San Francisco General Hospital AIDS Ward staff in Gay Pride Parade on Market Street, 1988

(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)

Recommendation Corner

Books
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

TV
Say Nothing

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Ghosts of Mississippi

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