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Feb 19, 2011 · When civil-rights leader Medgar Evers was killed in Jackson, Miss., in 1963, Boston Celtics star Bill Russell called Evers' brother to ask how he could help. Russell traveled to Mississippi to run ...
Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute. Founded in 1989, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute represents the legacies of two of the strongest champions for change in the history of our nation. MMEI is committed to strengthening communities throughout the United States so that all Americans can live a life free of violence, exercise their liberty and ...
Feb 12, 2007 · Medgar Evers, at the time of his assassination in 1963, was the Field Secretary for the Mississippi NAACP and, thus one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in that state. Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. Evers was inducted into the US Army in 1943 and served in Normandy the following year.
Campaigns and Causes. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”. Medgar and Myrlie Evers exemplify civil rights organizing that combined grassroots strategies with efforts of national organizations to change laws and policies. The Evers established the NAACP office in Jackson, Mississippi in the mid-1950s.
Jun 12, 2015 · About Myrlie Evers-Williams. Myrlie Evers-Williams has long been a pioneer in the struggles for racial justice and women’s equality.She fought for decades to gain justice in the assassination Medgar Evers, worked tirelessly for civil rights, ran for political office, and from 1995-1998, served as chair of the NAACP.
The assassination of Medgar Evers in the driveway of his carport in June 1963 was the first such murder of a national civil rights leader. The killing shook the nation, and helped push forward legislation like the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. Former Sgt. Medgar Wiley Evers is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith , a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers .
