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Medgar Evers receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, country’s highest civilian honor
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAt her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare,...
Medgar Evers assassination: Myrlie Evers-Williams recounts the details
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMyrlie Evers-Williams and Al Sharpton, speaking at gala honoring Medgar Evers 60 years after his...
Myrlie Evers opens up about marriage to Medgar Evers, her fight after his death
CBS News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMonday marks 60 years since civil rights activist Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his...
Byron De La Beckwith convicted on this date in 1994 in Medgar Evers assassination
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 4 months agoByron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on February 5,...
Medgar Evers is one of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. We don’t talk about him...
theGrio via AOL· 12 months agoOPINION: Sixty years after Evers' assassination, many people still don't know the story of Medgar...
This Civil Rights legend was a veteran of World War II France
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMedgar Evers grave, Arlington National Cemetery, 2007. For some of us, Medgar Evers sounds like just...
"There are two Americas": Joy-Ann Reid on the legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJoy-Ann Reid Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Black America has always had a complicated...
60 years after Medgar Evers’ murder, his widow continues a civil rights legacy
theGrio via AOL· 12 months agoEvers investigated lynchings, beatings and other violence that Black residents suffered at the hands...
Family ties strong for Badgers' Nick Evers, distant cousin of a slain civil rights leader
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoMADISON – Wisconsin quarterback Nick Evers never met his distant cousin, one of the more influential...
Slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers' work honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCivil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on Friday. He was named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal ...