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On This Day, Feb. 5: White supremacist convicted of killing Medgar Evers
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPolice investigate the home of Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, who was shot to death by...
"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...
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...
Emmett Till: Lawsuit seeks Carolyn Bryant's arrest in kidnapping
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant...
America's 'nasty disease': At 90, civil rights icon Myrlie Evers still marches against racism
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCLAREMONT, Calif. – Myrlie Evers felt her temper rising as she sat in the White House theater behind...
Myrlie Evers Reflects on Husband's Assassination 60 Years Later: ‘I Would've Taken Those Bullets'...
People via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the 90-year-old civil rights icon opens up about her life-changing...
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...