It's always seemed a little tangential to ask, but can I please?
Can we talk about the amazing midcentury modernism of Medgar and Myrlie Evers's home, and the ways that it might matter to their story? https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1337241172062908420
Can we talk about the amazing midcentury modernism of Medgar and Myrlie Evers's home, and the ways that it might matter to their story? https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1337241172062908420
There's the dark history: Evers was assassinated in the driveway & racists bombed the carport. But also what a proud & forward-looking house it is, in seafoam green & w/low-slung horizontality. As Jennifer Baughn describes, it defies antebellum classicism: https://www.docomomo-us.org/news/deep-south-modern
For more, see the Nat'l Register & NHL nomination here, latter prepared by Baughn, a great advocate for modernism in MS. Note the house "sits in the Elraine Subdivision," 1st postwar Af-Am subdivision in state, developed & built by African Americans too. https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/nom/prop/32997.pdf