it was worth dyingw for.n that is why i am deeply honored to be with my partner and friend, myrlie evers-williams to put forward for the first time the voice, the writings and documents of medgar evers. i would like to turn ther podium over to myrlie evers-williams. [applause] >> good evening to all of you. i am so delighted to see you here. as always, i am moved by my friend dr. manning marable and hall articulate he is the historian many as and the picture that the present so thoroughly and so colorful a polka . if i may now call you manning in front of all of these people, i think you. dr. manning marable hasm played such an important role to get the book published in and out to the public.utt, i want to in thanking him tell you how this came about. but before i do that i do want to say he is a man who makes promises and i am sure very carefully but he keeps them and that is something epitomized medicare as well. n iot am not promising anything that you cannot keep but that you do promise keep the promise. that is what medgar did. i thank you for going into his new interiors and background. i