Talk:Medgar Evers

message: The final sentence about the prosecution of Byron De La Beckwith mentions unrelated corruption charges against DeLaughter. I would like to remove this as it bears no relevance to the assassination of Medgar Evers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.85.237.86 (talk) 04:47, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bobby DeLaughter 

message: The date of him entering college, in 1958, conflcits with the rest of the dates in the article, perhaps you meant 1948?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.120.181.46 (talk) 10:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: College

message: I would disput the inclusion of Scott's book on Beckwith in  his article.  Scott's work, Glory in Conflict, does not comply with the npov and is far from scholarly.  The best scholarly work on Evers is found in Dittmer's Local People.  Scott was an associate of Beckwith's and shared his supremacist views.  He makes a futile attempt to link the Evers' asassination to Lee harvey Oswald and the Kennedys.  Even the so-called "transcripts" quoted within the book leave out any evidence that would damn Beckwith.  Glory in  Conflict is pure racist literature and nothing else.  The only place it has value is in a conversation of Beckwith's ideology; an ideology that drove him to shoot Evers in the back.  References to this book for any other reason, at best, risky.
The above note was added by )  17:42, June 28, 2006 69.85.217.252 (Talk) (References)
I concur with the above note and will delete Scott from the reference section. Skywriter 19:06, 28 June 2006
The Jackson, Mississippi airport named for him is actually called the "Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport", per http://www.jmaa.com/JAN/default.htm .  I found the "citation needed" tag on that paragraph a little odd since it's what I'd call uncontentious information, so I intend to add the reference and remove that tag.  I'm posting it here because I'm an extremely inexperienced editor, and it opens a can of worms that would logically lead to editing the associated article for the airport at the page Jackson-Evers_International_Airport.  Since the airport article needs so much to effect this change, I'll wait a bit to see if anyone takes up the task. Ezriilc (talk) 02:29, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: before evers' murder was solved, eudora welty wrote a shorty story character study of one of the suspects. i suggest that this synopsis of his life and legacy include reference to welty's "where is the voice coming from".  -amanda- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.111.144.80 (talk) 18:50, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Welty short story

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 02:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment

message: I deleted this category because I'm in the process of deleting the entire category page for "murdered activists".  Evers is listed as both a murdered and assassinated activist - only one of which is accurate (assassinated). Envirocorrector 13:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. In the future, it'll save everyone time if you use edit summaries to describe what you're doing.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 22:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Murdered activists

message: WHO IS THE PRESON THAT KILLED HIM?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.126.223.196 (talk) 21:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Byron De La Beckwith. Kingturtle (talk) 16:58, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: KILLED

message: Please upload the images from enWiki to the Commons, there's a :Commons:Category:Medgar Evers  --CopperKettle 05:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: I removed this statement cited to a book written before Beckwith died.  His conviction was upheld on 12/23/1997, not vacated on that date. Don't take my word for it, read it here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.173.224.32 (talk) 17:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing incorrect "Conviction Overturned" citation

message: This articule needs a bit of an overhaul.  I'd merge the NAACP field secretary into Activism.  As much of the NAACP section is just a repeat and adds nothing to the articule.
Also there are a number of music references in the Assassination section that should be moved to to the In popular culture section.
Also in the In popular culture section, I'd move the paragraph starting "Ever's widow, myrlie, became. . . " into the Life section before "In 2001, . . . " as this paragraph has nothing to do with popular culture.
Jrincewind (talk) 05:29, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  mergers 

message: The "In Popular Culture" section as included here was indiscriminate in its inclusion and effectively trivialized Evers. Consequently, I made the following edits:
a. Took the genuinely and historically significant elements of Evers' legacy and and put them under a subhead so named.
b. Adhered to the policy of WP:IPC, which states that "However, passing mentions in books, television or film dialogue, or song lyrics should be included only when that mention's significance is itself demonstrated with secondary sources" by editing out just such casual references that add nothing to an understanding of Evers' life, work, and notability. Sensei48 (talk) 18:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "In Popular Culture" is a synonym for "Trivia". All the "information" in that section is trivia. Using the title "In Popular Culture" is a disingenuous attempt to include trivia without accurately describing it as such. =//= Johnny Squeaky 06:29, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: While I tend to agree in general, Wiki does allow for WP:IPC. However, what remains in the section, now more correctly named "cultural depictions" - a completely reputable addition to many biographies on Wiki - is just that. A New Yorker story by a major American writer of the Southern Literary Renaissance and treatments in music and film by major artists like Dylan, Ochs, Simone, and Reiner are not the same as say, a few seconds in The Simpsons or a "mention" in the lyrics of a song about something else. These are not strictly speaking part of Evers' legacy, but they are significantly indicative of the impact that his assassination had and continues to have decades after the fact.Sensei48 (talk) 19:17, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing inherently "disreputable" about the inclusion of "trivia", and as proof I offer that it is specifically not disallowed. The issue to me is the proper naming of content, that it is a silly and dishonest distraction to avoid the proper naming of a category of content simply because some have deemed the title (but apparently not the content) to be "low brow". Wikipedia should step above such nonsense and require proper naming of content. If it's "trivia" than that's what it is. If the content is to "low brow" for Wikipedia, than get rid of the content. =//= Johnny Squeaky 19:40, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure where either "trivia" or "low brow" (both inherently POV terms) apply to what remains in that section. Welty, New Yorker, and the others I cite above aren't "low brow" except in an extremely narrow culturally elitist sense. Your remark above about "Wikipedia should step above such nonsense" articulates a point of view that, as I said above, I share to a degree - but neither you nor I determine what content is acceptable in Wikipedia - and my final sentence above is the rationale for inclusion and proper naming.Sensei48 (talk) 20:11, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: "Trivia" is an accepted category lable at Wikipedia. If you do not want the "trivia" label, remove the content. I can do it if you like.... =//= Johnny Squeaky 20:26, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

text: We seem to be speaking at cross purposes here. The content in the section is not trivia, and there is a current consensus of 3 editors who today have reverted your edits that have labeled it as such.User:Wtshymanski points out in the edit summary that the cultural depictions are noted in the lede, and User:Spanglej notes that there is no consensus to term this section "trivia." The consensus as it exists at the moment is that those two editors and I are opposed to the trivia tag and to referring to the material as such. Only you are promoting that description. Wikipedia's protocols are clear about what to do in a case like this.Sensei48 (talk) 21:20, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: "In Popular Culture" sections and sections that contain similar content are in fact "trivia" sections. Accept the "Trivia" template, or integrate the information into the article. =//= Johnny Squeaky 21:33, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

text: "In fact"? Hardly. According to your POV they are. "Accept the trivia template"? Why? You have neither justified that appellation or responded to my comments above about the validity of the material included in the section. More significantly, you have not responded to the fact that three editors have reverted your attempts to attach the tag and label. This is a case of a single point of view on the issue - yours - outvoted by three other editors. A consensus opposes your highly idiosyncratic understanding of the issue, and on  Wikipedia, the majority rules in such cases.Sensei48 (talk) 21:43, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Jonny, I'm not sure why you are issuing ultimatums. Many editors here are not agreeing with your assessment. The article has changed a great deal since June 2011 (re heading); there has been much collaborative work done since then and discussion about how to proceed. 'Trivia' suggests the content is non-substantive. In my view the content of the popular culture section is substantive. The points in the section as not "passing references" in songs or film. The works are about Evers or feature him / his assassination as a key aspect. You have exceeded the three revert rule in the past few days and are close to breaking it again today. Wikipedia is a collaborative project first and foremost. Span (talk) 20:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits June 2011 

message: Do people find it problematic that the entry states that Evers is "featured" in The Help in the THIRD sentence? First, he is not "featured," he is briefly seen in the film on a television and his death is covered BRIEFLY (a little more in the film than in the book). The first part of a wikipedia entry should explain what is most significant about someone. Does the person who made this change really think that this is one of the most significant things about him? To that end, I am editing this out. If the person who added wants to put it back in, I would suggest that it is one of a few things mentioned in a popular culture section that would include Ghosts of Mississippi (a more significant film about him, to be sure) and any other popular culture references. Rawreader (talk) 14:39, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like an edit war is brewing, given it's been reverted several times.  I agree with you, and to make things worse, the most recent edit adds a link to some advertisement, where a link to another wikipedia entry or similar would have been more appropriate.  Warthog32 (talk) 16:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to worry - eliminating promo and advert does not constitute an edit war. It is simply honoring Wiki guidelines. The editor who keeps inserting this ought to be ashamed - putting this shameless promo into the lede is especially disgusting.Sensei48 (talk) 17:36, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

text: I think the sentiments against inclusion are articulated well above, and I am not sure that your measured responses here overcome the fact that the Evers material in the book and film is completely oblique to the plot. However, we need always to be open to reconsideration on Wiki, and certainly is a majority of editors working on the article feel that it should be included, then so be it. However, it was added back today, and I am going to rv it pending further discussion here. Sensei48 (talk) 22:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That statement from the Assoc. of Black Women Historians is thoroughly condemnatory and the most well-articulated argument against inclusion here. I'm afraid that someone will need an equally powerful contrary opinion as a source to justify inclusion. Sensei48 (talk) 16:45, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Help 

message: Everyone is protected from being tried twice for the same crime (Fifth Amendment), regardless if "new evidence" arises at a later date. Why was Byron De La Beckwith not afforded this basic Constitutional right? Was there something else mentioned in the article that I'm missing as to why they brought him back up on murder charges three decades after the alleged murder? I understand a mistrial can be retried, but the same evidence was used, except for some hearsay at a Klan rally about him bragging about the murder. Hardly "new evidence". It seems so-called 'civil rights' leaders elevated to god-status and can enjoy (even if postmortem) extralegal protection. [sarcasm]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.29.16.118 (talk) 06:47, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hung jury seems to indicate that Evers got the special protection due to every American citizen; De La Beckwith's first two trials resulted in hung juries.  You can't hang a defendant if the jury is hung. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:43, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double Jeopardy 

message: The question is whether this should be included:
Malvina Reynolds mentioned "the shot in Evers' back" in her protest song, It Isn't Nice. 
My feeling is that it should not be.  We should have popular culture appearances of the subject in the article only when the references themselves help the reader to understand the subject of the article more clearly than they would otherwise in a way which is not reasonably inclusible in the article itself.  I know the Reynolds song, and as good a song as it is, I don't think it's appropriate for this article on Evers.  Perhaps it could be discussed in Reynolds's article?  Alternatively, if a reliable source could be found that discusses the Reynolds song explicitly in the context of Evers then it's possible that that would mean it was appropriate for inclusion here.  WP:IPC is worth reading as a guideline for these discussions.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:27, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Like I said, I know the song.  I just don't think that it illuminates anything about Evers in an important or unique enough way to include in this article.  It doesn't present any new perspectives on Evers.  The only thing that would change my mind about this is a reliable source that makes the kind of arguments you're making for its inclusion.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:36, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding is that it's one thing if a song is 'about' an incident. It's another if a song, TV programme, film etc, mentions an incident 'in passing'. WP:IPC says that if the mention itself is referenced as notable in secondary sources, then okay. Articles get littered with lines to the effect that "Bart Simpson said 'lightning rod' in episode 8". [NB, I responded here before seeing the recent edit changes to the article - if there's a source that cites the song then ok]. Span (talk) 23:40, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malvina Reynolds song 

message: After sentence "Evers walked twelve miles to school to earn his high school diploma" add "Evers recalls walking to his elementary school in first grade in Decatur, MS and being yelled at and hit with items sailing from the windows by white children riding in a school bus. This was a common scene in Mississippi during the Jim Crow Era and one of Evers’ earliest memories of racial inequality in the South." and the add "Evers and his siblings attended all black school for the duration of their primary and secondary schooling and were used to receiving less than adequate resources and supplies."  
Remove "The Evers owned a small farm and James worked at a sawmill" and replace with "Evers was the son of a laundress and sawmill worker who taught their children the importance of religion, hard work, and education." and then add "Decatur was never short of public acts of racial prejudice, especially with the large number of lynchings that occurred here during Jim Crow era. One of Ever’s clearest memories of racial violence was when he was fourteen years old. He witnessed Willie Tingle dragging behind a moving vehicle from a rope through the streets of his hometown and was then shot dead and hung in public for insulting a white woman, though this was merely a rumor. Evers remembers seeing Tingle’s bloodied clothing cast off where his body was hanged for months after his death, burning the image of African American oppression into his mind."    
After "...James and Jesse Evers; the family also included Jesse's two children from a previous marriage.", include "Evers was the closest with his older brother Charles, whom he admired in typical younger brother fashion. Medgar depended on Charles for valuable instruction for things such as swimming, fishing, and hunting, among other things and was Medgar’s confidant for most of his childhood and adolescent life."  
Remove "From 1943 to 1945 he fought in Europe with the army, and was discharged honorably as a sergeant" and replace with "Evers was a sophomore at an all black high school in Newton County when he decided to voluntarily enlist in the United States army in 1942, partially because he wanted to experience the world outside America and partially because his older brother Charles enlisted a mere twelve months earlier."  Then add "He was accepted and served in battle on the beaches of Normandy as well in the French campaign." . Then add "While in the army, Evers was forced to serve only with blacks, as the troops were segregated. This angered Evers because blacks in the American army were fighting for freedom on international soil and yet would not experience this freedom upon domestic soil."   Then add "When Evers was honorably discharged from the army in 1946, he returned to Decatur and wanted to register to vote at the local elections. To Evers, voting meant citizenship."  and "Therefore, he and four friends went to the elections in order to vote and were forced to leave at gunpoint by whites."  
After "In 1948 Evers enrolled at Alcorn College (a historically black college, now Alcorn State University) majoring in business administration; he also competed on the debate, football, and track teams, sang in the choir, and was junior class president", add "He was editor of Alcorn College campus newspaper and the annual and was recognized for his academic endeavors in Who’s Who in American Colleges"  
After "On December 24, 1951 he married classmate Myrlie Beasley, with whom he eventually had three children, and received his BA the following year", insert "Myrlie Beasley was a nursing student."  then insert "Evers became aware of the NAACP for the first time his senior year at Alcorn College when he attended an interracial debate between students from Millsaps, an all white college, and Tougaloo, an all black college. He joined the NAACP immediately after learning of its existence and contributions."  
After "The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, where Evers became a salesman for T. R. M. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company", insert "traveling salesman for Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance and became exposed to the impoverished plight of many southern African Americans, which sparked his passion for serving in the NAACP to achieve rights for blacks." 
Remove "In this position, he helped organize boycotts and set up new local chapters of the NAACP" and replace with "In his position as field secretary, Evers worked largely behind the scenes collecting, organizing, and publicizing civil rights abuse cases specific to Mississippi. However, when he got wind of the Pearsall Plan, which sought to enact legislation giving the General Assembly the ability to give funds for the private schooling of students who was sent to an integrated school against the wishes of his or her parents, he became frustrated with the lack of enforcement of the Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 Supreme Court decision. This frustration caused Evers to become involved in more public forms of action. These more public forms of activism manifested in Ever’s organizational help in establishing the Jackson Movement, an attempt to end racial segregation in Jackson, MS. He led black Jacksonians to push for educational integration in the local schools, parks, and public libraries, as well black employment in the police force and community offices. Ever attempted to achieve these goals through nonviolent demonstrations, sit-ins, and business boycotts and gained the attention of white supremacists and white civil rights activists." 
Leahromulus (talk) 22:17, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: As a new account holder you should now be able to edit semi-protected pages. Please remember that we aim for a neutral point of view in editing, not forwarding an agenda or adding editorial comment. Thanks Span (talk) 16:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, as soon as you make 10 edits and have had an account for 4 days, you will be able to make this edit. Please keep in mind what Span mentioned above. - Camyoung54 talk 19:36, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 8 March 2013 

message: While searching for something else, I wondered why Seattle had a swimming pool named for Medgar Evers.  As far as I can tell, he has no particular association with Seattle.
A public swimming pool in Seattle was "upon community petition in 1969, named to honor MEDGAR WILEY EVERS" and completed in April 1970.
https://www.seattle.gov/parks/history/EversPool.pdf 
(handwritten, part of the Sherwood historical notes on the Seattle parks system)
seattlepools.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Seattle%20Pool%20History.doc
Medgar Evers Pool
Medgar Evers is a 25 yard + 15 yard 240,000 gallon pool that opened in April 1970.  The pool was named after the slain civil rights leader Medgar Wylie Evers. Built with Forward Thrust bonds, it was the first pool built with these levy funds and it's "unique" architectural design immediately started causing problems and construction delays for the contractors.
Facility Amenities include:
Sauna
1 meter diving board
Rope Swing
Weights Machine  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.64.56.45 (talk) 23:59, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy 

message: Who are the other three in this photograph? 
http://jacksonfreepress.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2013/06/05/EVERS_and_three_men_courtesy_MDAH_edited_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EdRicardo (talk • contribs) 18:59, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who are the other three 

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message: Okay, it's obvious, he was shot in the back. But the article states that "the bullet ripped through his heart." Then he got up and staggered to the door, was taken to a hospital and denied entrance, and died 50 minutes later. I'm not an M.D. and don't play one on television but people who have had bullets 'rip through their heart' do not usually live that long. And no, I am not a racist and do like Medgar Evers but that extremely unlikely statement discredits the entire article. 116.231.75.71 (talk) 12:31, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody else responded to this? I did a quick search and came up with varying accounts. The FBI and NAACP said Evers was shot in the back. The NY Times in a 2016 report said the bullet ripped through his back. A 1963 Life magazine article on his funeral said the bullet ripped through his heart. In my first sweep, where I didn't make note of the sources, he died at his house, on the way to the hospital and at the hospital. All that said, our unidentified contributor above makes a good point, though according to other articles in a search on this specific topic, while a shot through the heart is almost always fatal, it is possible to survive. That doesn't make sense given how quickly you'd lose blood, but for sure, surviving 50 minutes without treatment doesn't seem possible. In any case, this deserves to be looked into. BTW, I couldn't access the source used in the article. Allreet (talk) 10:12, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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message: Hi,
it might be just me, but there is something in the sentence
"Evers was the first African American to be admitted to an all-white hospital in Mississippi,
a questionable achievement for the dying activist." that just does not feel right. 
As if he should have tried harder to get into that hospital. Like, why didn't he get himself shot before, like?
If that tragic event needs a qualifier, it surely must be the, for want of a better bitter expression, sad irony of people being assassinated before they can gain entry to a race segregated hospital. The "questionability" is all on the admission policies, and not at all on the victim.
Thar said, I'm not a native speaker, and may have misunderstood the language; and I certainly won't be so bold as to try to 'improve' the wording. So ... i'd be grateful for a better proposal, or just some comforting words. T 88.89.217.90 (talk) 22:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird sentence 

message: ,
You latest revert to the new sentence add to the page has the following edit summary:
:see talk page - still not relevant to Medgar Evers, pop-culture trivia)
You can definitely argue that the sentence added is pop-culture trivia. That is precisely the reason it was added to the section called "In Popular Culture," sub-section "Film."
The facts are: This is a film that carries live footage of the subject of this page, Mr. Medgar Evers. talking on national TV about discrimination in Jackson, Miss., where he lived and was an activist, as the page explains. That is his notability to this encyclopedia. The footage and the context can be seen in the film clip shown in the first reference to the sentence added. Did you look at it?
So, the sentence added is in the right section and it definitely pertains to the subject of the page, Mr. Medgar Evers.
So how in the world can you rather randomly state that it is "still not relevant to Medgar Evers"???? It is definitely relevant to Medgar Evers and to his notability (because it shows it live), and it is precisely in the section called Pop-Culture, as it should be. Can you please explain why you will keep removing this sentence when it is re-added now? Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 17:56, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Should we also add "Driving Miss Daisy" to Automobile? Or that episode of "Seinfeld" where they talk about the assasination added to the article on Kennedy?  Certainly lots of footage of cars being driven in that film. Not every place I saw X on TV or film iis a suitable item to add to an article about X.  Beaten to death above, or in the archives. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:18, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, thank you for the answer/explanation. All your sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek comparisons are shallow and they don't stand up to simple logic and common sense, in my view. Nor do they stand up to the historical truth of the matter, and historical truth will have a place in Wikipedia, in the end, I believe. We'll just have to wait for enough non-biased editors to look at this matter objectively again some time. warshy (¥¥) 22:51, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question to User:Wtshymanski 

message: You have to read two full paragraphs before you reach the most notable fact about Medgar Evers' life: his assassination. That murder was monumental in the civil rights movement, granted not as significant as King's but not far behind either. Certainly it was more important than Evers' war record, field secretaryship, college degree, NAACP award and all of the other trivia you have to wade through before getting to what any other encyclopedic article would be sure to include in the lead sentence. Say his name and the thought of how he died is bound to be the first to come to mind. I'll gladly re-write it but would like to hear from other editors first.  Allreet (talk) 09:35, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly agree. The assassination is almost as important as Evers' NAACP Mississippi work, and the two are of course closely related (if you do the rewrite please keep his field secretary position as most prominent). Thank you for noticing the absence of the assassination in the lead paragraph. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:04, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone buried the lead 

message: There are pics on the web and a history of his exhumation 30 years after his dead and his body looked so intact that they decided to watch him for a second time. 2603:9000:5E01:728B:E167:99D6:6A18:D40D (talk) 02:52, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he exhumed 

message: The article refers to his rank as sergeant.  His headstone shows his rank as Tec 5 (Technician fifth grade).  Technician fifth grades (sometimes referred to as technician fifth class) were the same pay grade as corporals, but were ranked one level below corporals. []  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C44:6F00:D890:5C6B:2F87:D5B4:6EC6 (talk) 15:13, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Army rank 

message: Joy Reid's book, "Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America", was released in Feb, 2024 and has made top slots in the NY Times book seller list.
Before I add a reference to it, anyone have any reasons or suggestions as to why I shouldn't?
Otherwise, in a week or two I'll edit this entry.
Thanks
wiki-ny-2007 (talk) 00:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before I mention the new book about him...