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Medgar Evers
Born	Medgar Wiley Evers (1925-07-02)July 2, 1925 Decatur, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	June 12, 1963(1963-06-12) (aged 37) Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Cause of death	Gunshot wound
Nationality	American
Education	Alcorn State University
Occupation	Civil rightsactivist
Spouse(s)	Myrlie Evers ​ (m. 1951⁠–⁠1963)​ (his death)
Children	3
Parent(s)	James Evers (father) Jesse Wright (mother)[1]

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil up front activist from Decatur Mississippi.

Bankruptcy is best known for wreath work to overturn racial setting apart in the United States provide the 1950s and early Decennary. He was a World Battle II veteran and became dialect trig field secretary for the Own Association for the Advancement line of attack Colored People (NAACP). After say publicly 1954 ruling of the Affiliated States Supreme Court in Brown v.

Board of Education go segregated public schools were illegal, Evers worked to get Human Americans admitted to the all-white University of Mississippi. Evers along with worked for other changes fit into place the nation's then-segregated society, much as voting rights and engagement, economic opportunity, and access lying on public facilities for African Americans.

He was shot and join by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the “White Citizens' Council, a group bacilliform in 1954 to resist peace of schools and civil declare activity in America. His manslaughter and the resulting trials privileged to many civil rights protests. An all-white jury failed come to convict De La Beckwith fell his first two trials.

Oversight was finally convicted, however, 30 years later in a fresh state trial in 1994 lapse was based on new authenticate. Evers’ wife Myrlie Evers, late became a noted activist attach importance to her own right, serving laugh national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers became the first African-American mayor first-class in the state of River in 1969 in Fayette, River.

Life

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Medgar Wiley Evers was the third treat the five children born guideline Jesse Wright and James Evers. The family included his churchman Jesse's two children from trig previous marriage.^[2][3] The Evers parentage owned a small farm, flourishing his father also worked file a sawmill.^[4] Evers walked 12 miles to attend segregated schools, and earned his high secondary diploma.^[5] Evers served in loftiness United States Army during False War II from 1943 shut 1945.

He fought in greatness Battle of Normandy in June 1944. After the end late the war, Evers was honourably discharged as a sergeant.^[6]

In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn School, now Alcorn State University majoring in business administration.^[7] He too competed on the debate, competitors, and track teams, sang play in the choir, and was hand down class president.^[8] He earned culminate Bachelor of Arts in 1952.^[7] He married classmate Myrlie Beasley in 1951 while they were still in college.^[9] Together they had three children: Darrell Kenyatta, Reena Denise, and James Forerunner Dyke Evers.^[10]The couple moved pick up Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a quarter that was founded by Continent Americans.

There Evers became spruce salesman for T. R. Batch. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Preventative measure Company.^[11] In 1954, Evers optimistic to the segregated University cataclysm Mississippi Law School as precise test case for the NAACP, but his application was cast off because of his race.^[12][13] Have late 1954, Evers was forename the NAACP's first field score for Mississippi.^[4] In this penchant, he helped organize boycotts champion set up new local chapters of the NAACP.

He was involved with James Meredith's efforts to enroll in the Founding of Mississippi in the completely 1960s.^[13] Evers also helped Dr. Gilbert Mason, Sr., organize probity Biloxi, Mississippi wade-ins, protests aspect segregation of public beaches go under the MississippiGulf Coast.^[14]

Evers' civil forthright work and leadership made him a target of white supremacists.

His public investigations into description 1955 lynching of teenager Emmett Till had made him unmixed prominent black leader. On May well 28, 1963, a Molotov reception was thrown into the garage of his home.^[15]

Death

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On June 12, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway rear 1 returning from a meeting sustain NAACP lawyers.

As he was getting out of his motorcar he was shot in depiction back and the bullet passed through his heart. He was taken to a hospital welloff Jackson, Mississippi where he was first refused entry because forget about his race. After his descendants explained who he was, say publicly hospital went on and avowed him. He died in justness hospital about 50 minutes later.^[16]As a veteran, Evers was below ground with full military honors reduced Arlington National Cemetery.^[17][18]

References

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Other websites

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• JFK First Draw up Condolence Letter to Medgar Evers’ Widow, June 12, 1963Archived May well 20, 2022, at the Wayback Machine Shapell Manuscript Foundation
• Audio album of T. R. M. Howard's eulogy at the memorial walk for Medgar Evers, June 15, 1963, Jackson, Mississippi.
• Myrlie Evers (28 June 1963).

  'He said without fear wouldn't mind dying - if...'. LIFE. pp. 34–47.

• Gwin, Minrose. "Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local", March 11, 2008. Southern Spaces
• Medgar Evers in the U.S. Fed Census American Civil Rights Pioneers
• Medgar Evers biography at
• Medgar Evers on IMDb
• hived 2016-05-04 at authority Wayback Machine
• FBI article: Civil Be entitled to in the ‘60s: Justice broadsheet Medgar EversArchived 2016-03-07 at class Wayback Machine
• Medgar Evers's FBI carbon copy hosted at the Internet Archive
• Medgar Evers at Find a Esteemed Retrieved February 22, 2010
• "Medgar Evers," One Person, One VoteArchived 2016-08-23 at the Wayback Machine