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Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.
Jun 8, 2024 · Medgar Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Miss., U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Miss.) was an American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights movement.
Jun 12, 2023 · Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights organizer Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway in Jackson, Miss. He stepped out of his Oldsmobile carrying shirts ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized voter-registration efforts and economic boycotts, and...
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.
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.
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.
Jun 11, 2013 · Evers was a World War II veteran who participated in the Normandy invasion. Born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925, Medgar Evers was the third of five children born to farmer and sawmill...
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A 37-year-old civil rights activist named Medgar Evers had just come home after a meeting of the NAACP. As he began the short walk up to his single-story rambler, the bullet struck...
Mar 3, 2010 · In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
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