For many who fought in the civil rights movement, the tragedy in Charlottesville, Va., has reopened wounds and raised questions about a nation they thought they knew.
The rise of the monster of racism has driven Myrlie Evers to tears.
“I am in a state of despair, hurt, anger and disbelief that we are at this point in America — again,” said Myrlie Evers, whose husband, Medgar, was assassinated in 1963 by a white supremacist.
“Again,” she repeated, as if hardly believing the word. “Again.”
The scenes in Charlottesville have resurrected scenes of pain in her life when a coward shot her husband in the back in the driveway of their home, and the children rushed out, crying for their father to get up, she said. “All of these things are just flashing back.”
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