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1. www.npr.org › 2023/06/12 › 1180727818Remembering Medgar Evers, 60 years after his death : NPR

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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...

2. naacp.org › civil-rights-leaders › medgar-eversMedgar Evers | NAACP

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   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.

3. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleHow the assassination of Medgar Evers galvanized the Civil ...

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   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...

4. www.fbi.gov › history › famous-casesMedgar Evers — FBI

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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...

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     Legendary Civil Rights Leader Medgar Wiley Evers Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

     President Joe Biden has announced that Medgar Wiley Evers will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. My beloved husband, Medgar, was the ...

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6. www.thenmusa.org › biographies › medgar-w-eversMedgar W. Evers - National Museum of the United States Army

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   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.

7. www.nationalww2museum.org › war › articlesMedgar Evers: US Army Veteran and Civil Rights Leader

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   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.

8. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2023/06/11Medgar Evers and the assassination that shook the civil ...

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   Jun 11, 2023 · 10 min. JACKSON, Miss. — The violent threats against civil rights leader Medgar Evers from white supremacists in Mississippi were escalating in 1963. The phone at the family’s home in Jackson...