Evers contacted the US Justice Department to complain. Then later that week, students conducting a protest march were beaten, arrested, then imprisoned. He decided to have retaliation rallies but he was informed by the NAACP that there was not enough money for bail to be supplied to the protestors. So, Evers decided to raise money with singer Lena Horne. The concert they held brought together 3,500 people that herd Horne sing, then Medgar Evers spoke. First about the attendants of the concert saying, "It's not enough to just sit here tonight and voice your approval and clap your hands and shed your tears and sing and then go out and do nothing about this struggle."(Williams, 221) Then he spoke of his family saying, "Freedom has never been free.I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, and die gladly, if that would make a better life for them."(Williams, 221).
Medgar Evers's family always came first in his life, they meant everything to him and he meant everything to them. He married his wife Myrlie in December of 1951. Medger, Myrlie, and their three children lived together in Jackson Mississippi. .
"Medgar was an absolutely marvelous father. He could talk to the children and tell them what was happening, and he devised a game where they decided what was the safest place in the house to hide if something happened. The children made a decision with their father that the bathtub was the safest.they knew their father was in danger.and they always worried about that." ( Williams, 223) .
The majority of the adults that fought for the change in civil rights, not of the present because that was not possible, but for the future of their children and the children to come. This was also one of Medgar Evers's main motives. He wanted to create a better lining condition for the people of the US at that time, but in the back of his mind he knew that it was not going to happen.
