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Jun 12, 2013 · Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP, was shot and killed 50 years ago on Wednesday. Here is the simple program for his funeral, held three days later in Jackson, Miss. That...
- Rebecca Onion
Jan 17, 2003 · In a fitting farewell, Evers' casket was placed on a slow train through the South, headed for Washington, DC, where the body would lie in state and be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In death, Evers inspired reappraisals, conversions and heroics on a grand scale.
Jul 7, 2021 · He was sentenced to life in prison and died there in 2001. Evers became more famous nationally in death than in life. His assassination, and the president’s speech, spurred action on civil rights legislation. One year later, fittingly on his birthday, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law.
Jan 13, 2016 · “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea,” he once said. Evers championed school integration, encouraged blacks to vote and staged daring protests against racial inequality in the South.
Jun 12, 2021 · Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today. About 75 people gathered to honor the life of Medgar Evers on Saturday — exactly 58 years after he was assassinated at his home. The event, held on June 12 each year, also honored Charles Evers, Medgar Evers’ brother and a notable longtime Mississippi politician, who died in July 2020 at the age of 97.
- Vickie King
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Mar 3, 2010 · June | 12. Choose another date. 1963. Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated. In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar...
Jul 2, 2016 · “More than 100,000 people saw his body lying in that casket,” he told The New York Times in 2003. The Bryant brothers were found not guilty. After the acquittal, they kissed their wives, lit ...
