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  1. Jun 5, 1991 · 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 in his 1963 slaying, officials confirmed.

  2. 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...

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  4. Feb 12, 2016 · The sniper fired his shot from a high-powered rifle, hitting Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader, as he walked from his car to his home after midnight in Jackson, Miss. Within an hour, he was...

  5. Jun 12, 2021 · Before his assassination in 1963, Medgar Evers was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leader, working to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities and expand voting rights for African Americans.

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  6. Medgar Evers, far left, was threatened and eventually killed for registering African Americans voters in ...

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  7. Jul 2, 2016 · As a war veteran Evers was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors, achieving in death what he had been denied in life — equality with his brothers-in-arms and his ...

  8. Jun 8, 1991 · The prosecutor here who is pursuing the slaying of Medgar Evers says it was the loss of the original autopsy report that caused him to have Mr. Evers's body exhumed earlier this week, 28...

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