Medgar Evers fought for the freedom of all men when he served as a soldier who invaded Nazi-controlled Europe in 1944.

Later,after our blood-bought victory, when he arrived home in Mississippi, he was ordered by the bus driver to "go to the back of the bus."

After he got his bearings back home, Medgar set out to get his brethren in Mississippi registered to vote.

He was doing the good work of a democratic republic when, one night in 1963, he was shot dead in his own front yard in Jackson after an organizational meeting at a church.

I was a white kid on the other side of town when that murder was inflicted on the soul-bearer of a nation.

Many years later, I wrote and published a novel about that time, and the later time. . . when white kids came down South in Freedom Summer, 1964, to discover--when they encountered what the racist ruling class was inflicting on black folk-- what was really going on in America.

And that was when the new breed of war-resisting young folk learned how to oppose the war-making establishment up in Washington.

A few years ago, I wrote an historic novel about it--about what happened to America during that time and during the war in Vietnam:

King of Soul.

The battle for the Soul of America has been going on since the founding. . . since the 3/5 clause. . . since the Dred Scott decision, Plessy . . . Brown v. Board of Education . . .and still it is fought in the streets of Minneapolis, Louisville . . . election 2020.

Now we have a clear path with Joe and Kamala. We need to make the best of it. Make hay while the sun shines.