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Giant of the Civil Rights Movement Medgar Evers deserves Medal of Freedom, lawmakers say
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWASHINGTON _ Mississippi’s congressional delegation called for President Joe Biden Tuesday to award...
"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...
Myrlie Evers-Williams Continues Civil Rights Work of Her Late Husband Medgar Evers
21 Ninety via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMyrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, is continuing the...
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...
Bennie Thompson applauds posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoRep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was just a boy when civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down...
Medgar Evers receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, country’s highest civilian honor
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoAt her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare,...
Family ties strong for Badgers' Nick Evers, distant cousin of a slain civil rights leader
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoMADISON – Wisconsin quarterback Nick Evers never met his distant cousin, one of the more influential...
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...
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,...
Slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers' work honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 weeks 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 ...