Medgar Evers - Wikipedia
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Medgar Evers | Biography, Civil Rights Movement, Activist,
2024年11月19日 · Medgar Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Mississippi) 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.
Medgar Evers - Quotes, Death & Facts - Biography
2014年4月3日 · Civil 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...
Medgar Evers — FBI
A 37-year-old civil rights activist named Medgar Evers had just come home after a meeting of the NAACP. As he began the short walk up to his single-story rambler, the bullet struck...
Remembering Medgar Evers, 60 years after his death : NPR
2023年6月12日 · Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights organizer Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway in Jackson, Miss. He stepped out of his Oldsmobile carrying shirts ...
Medgar Evers - NAACP
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.
Medgar Evers - U.S. Army and Civil Rights Veteran - VA History
2022年5月23日 · Medgar Evers was a champion of Black Civil Rights in the mid twentieth century. His mission to change racial discrimination in America was fueled by his upbringing and tenure in the military.
Medgar Wiley Evers - U.S. National Park Service
The assassination of Medgar Evers in the driveway of his carport in June 1963 was the first such murder of a national civil rights leader. The killing shook the nation, and helped push forward legislation like the Civil Rights Bill of 1964.
Medgar Evers (1925-1963) - Blackpast
2007年2月12日 · Medgar Evers, at the time of his assassination in 1963, was the Field Secretary for the Mississippi NAACP and, thus one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in that state. Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi.
Evers, Medgar Wiley | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...
As field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Mississippi from 1954 until his death in 1963, Medgar Evers played a pivotal role in the civil rights organization’s expansion in the South.