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Jun 12, 2013 · The story of Evers’ family’s heartbreak brought the Southern civil rights struggle into the national spotlight. Life magazine reported : Evers, 37-year-old combat veteran of World War II, had ...
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Jun 5, 1991 · Jun 5, 1991 Updated Jan 24, 2015. Civil rights leader Medgar Evers' body was exhumed and secretly re-examined here as prosecutors prepare to try a white supremacist for the third time...
Jun 12, 2023 · June 12th, 2023. In this Aug. 9, 1955 file photo, Medgar Evers, state secretary for the NAACP poses for a photo in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/File) Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights organizer Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway in Jackson, Miss.
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Jun 12, 2023 · Getty Images. A studio portrait of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers taken in the early 1960s. Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights organizer Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway in Jackson, Miss.
Jun 12, 2023 · The event was designed to both celebrate recent preservation and protection efforts that extend access to the Evers story and to open a weekend-long commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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...
C ivil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on Friday. He was named one of 19 recipients of the...
