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Jun 12, 2023 · A studio portrait of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers taken in the early 1960s. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights...
Medgar Evers. Throughout his short life, Medgar Evers heroically spoke out against racism in the deeply divided South. He fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched an investigation into the Emmett Till lynching.
Jun 12, 2020 · On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist outside his home in Decatur, Mississippi. His death sparked outrage across the nation. Later that...
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Medgar Evers — FBI. It took more than three decades, but justice was finally served in the 1963 murder of a pioneering civil rights leader in Jackson, Mississippi. Medgar Evers stands near...
Medgar Evers: US Army Veteran and Civil Rights Leader. Medgar Evers was one of more than a million African Americans who served in the US military during World War II. He returned home only to face daily discrimination and paid the ultimate price for his fight against inequality. February 22, 2021.
July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963. Medgar W. Evers Library of Congress. Famous activist, Soldier, and family man Medgar W. Evers was one of the most effective civil rights advocates in Jim Crow Mississippi. He fought for voting rights and desegregation and investigated the murder of 14-year old Emmet Till.
Jul 7, 2021 · Medgar Wiley Evers, civil rights activist, voting rights activist and organizer, was born 96 years ago this month in tiny Decatur, Mississippi. He would go on to become one of the nation’s most significant 20th-century voices in the causes of civil rights and social justice before being assassinated at the age of 37.
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