WATCH: Joy-Ann Reid on the ‘sorority’ of civil rights era widows

Author and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid’s new book, “Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America,” helps paint a fuller picture of the civil rights movement.

On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers – a pioneering civil rights activist - was killed by a white supremacist outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. His murder thrust Myrlie Evers into the national spotlight, and she became a freedom fighter in her own right.

Reid spoke to the PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett about the relationship between Medgar Evers’ widow, Myrlie, and the late Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz-- the widows of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

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