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Bookmark or Share- Medgar Evers - Quotes, Death & Facts - BiographyCivil 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 investigated...
- Medgar Evers - WikipediaMedgar 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.
- Remembering Medgar Evers, 60 years after his death : NPRA 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...
- Medgar Evers | Mississippi NAACP, Civil Rights Leader, ActivistMedgar 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. Evers served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. Afterward he and his elder brother ...
- 7 Things You Should Know About Medgar Evers | HISTORYCBS / Getty Images. 1. 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...
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