Title: Remembering Medgar Evers
Description: As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississipi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till's murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith as the civil rights leader unloaded a stack of "Jim Crow Must Go" T-shirts in his own driveway. His was the first assassination of a high-ranking public figure in the civil rights movement.
Subjects: African American civil rights workers, Songs and music, Civil rights, Influence, Civil rights movements, History, African Americans, Biography, Civil rights workers, Evers, medgar wiley, 1925-1963, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, civil rights, African americans, biography
Places: Mississippi, Jackson
People: Medgar Wiley Evers (1925-1963)
Time periods: 20th century