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Medgar Evers's Biography

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He became active in the civil rights movement after returning from overseas service in World War II and completing secondary education; he became a field secretary for the NAACP.

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New York City Comptroller and 2013 Mayoral candidate John Liu stands at the podium during an event at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn
New York City Comptroller and 2013 Mayoral candidate John Liu stands at the podium during an event at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn
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  • New state poet laureate Frank X Walker hears voices in the sounds of ...

    News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 29 days ago
    Clearing his head, he says, helps with 'teasing things out' Contributing Culture Writer Writer Frank X Walker is driving to Alabama with a trunk full of books. The eight-hour trip is not out of the ordinary for Walker, who is promoting his latest

  • Jerry Mitchell, MacArthur 'Genius' and journalist who works Klan cold cases,...

    News Source: The Birmingham News | 1 month ago
    Jerry Mitchell's journalism has helped put four Klansmen in jail decades after their crimes were committed...Mitchell, an investigative reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, is coming to the University of Alabama at Birmingham's

  • Medgar Evers to be remembered 50 years after death

    News Source: SF Gate | 1 month ago
    Miss. (AP) It's well known that civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his Jackson home by a white supremacist on June 12, 1963. But before his tragic death in front of his home while his family was inside, Evers dedicated his life
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  • Myrlie Evers brings message of peace, justice and dialogue ...

    Blog Source: themississippilink.com | 27 days ago
    Evers is perhaps best known as the widow of Medgar Evers, the Mississippi state field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who in 1963 was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson.

  • American Voters, American Writers, American Indians

    Blog Source: www.zocalopublicsquare.org | 27 days ago
    University of Delaware historian May chronicles the civil rights struggles—including the assassinations of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr.—and political maneuverings that gave birth, eventually, to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • The Decline of Terrorism | RealClearPolitics

    Blog Source: www.realclearpolitics.com | 27 days ago
    The Ku Klux Klan assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers and killed four black girls by blowing up a church in Birmingham, Ala. Anti-Castro militants committed dozens of bombings in Miami. The Weather Underground mounted its own ...
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