Civil Rights
Medgar Evers
1925 – 1963
WWII veteran. Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary. Led voter-registration drives across the state. Investigated the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. Assassinated in the driveway of his Jackson home by a white supremacist on June 12, 1963, hours after President Kennedy's televised civil rights address.
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