Medgar Evers
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- END BRUTALITY IN JACKSON!!
- justice
- enough is enough!!
- END BRUTALITY
- NAACP
- Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi and he worked on the emmett hill case
- This organization here is called NAACP
- Medgar Evers was shot by a white supremacists named byron de la beckwith, He died on june 12, 1963
- Medgar evers was one of the african americans who served in the US military during World War II. He returned home only to force daily discrimination and paid the ultimate price for his fight against inequality
- Medgar Evers Justice was served, It took 31 years for Medgar Evers to get justice. all-white juries twice failed to convict De La Beckwith, stating they were deadlocked. De La Beckwith, who reportedly bragged about his role in the murder and even unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor of Mississippi
- Seven years after Medgar Evers own failed attempt at gaining admittance to the University of Mississippi, he was instrumental in finally desegregating the school through his work with James Meredith. Meredith, who like Evers had approached the NAACP for help after being denied admission, had taken his case all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor in 1962.
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