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Medgar Evers is one of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. We don’t talk about him...
theGrio via AOL· 11 months agoOPINION: Sixty years after Evers' assassination, many people still don't know the story of Medgar...
Medgar Evers assassination: Myrlie Evers-Williams recounts the details
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMyrlie Evers-Williams and Al Sharpton, speaking at gala honoring Medgar Evers 60 years after his...
Giant of the Civil Rights Movement Medgar Evers deserves Medal of Freedom, lawmakers say
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWASHINGTON _ Mississippi’s congressional delegation called for President Joe Biden Tuesday to award...
This Civil Rights legend was a veteran of World War II France
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMedgar Evers grave, Arlington National Cemetery, 2007. For some of us, Medgar Evers sounds like just...
60 years after Medgar Evers’ murder, his widow continues a civil rights legacy
theGrio via AOL· 11 months agoEvers investigated lynchings, beatings and other violence that Black residents suffered at the hands...
On This Day, Feb. 5: White supremacist convicted of killing Medgar Evers
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPolice investigate the home of Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, who was shot to death by...
Byron De La Beckwith convicted on this date in 1994 in Medgar Evers assassination
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 3 months agoByron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on February 5,...
"There are two Americas": Joy-Ann Reid on the legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJoy-Ann Reid Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Black America has always had a complicated...
Mississippi’s congressional delegation seeks Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers
theGrio via AOL· 6 months ago“Mr. Evers dedicated his life to the defense of civil rights in Mississippi and the United States,”...
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...