“You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea” - Medgar Evers
(Medgar Evers)
Medgar Evers was born on July 2nd, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi, USA. Evers had to walk 12 miles to attend the closest colored school.
(Evers as a young man)
In 1943 Evers entered the Army. He fought in the battle of Normandy. In 1945 Evers was honorably discharged as a sergeant.
(Evers in the Army)
In 1948 Evers enrolled at Alcorn College. In 1951 he married Myrlie Beasley.
(Evers (Left) and his wife Myrlie Beasley (Right))
In 1952 he earned his bachelor's degree. They moved to Mound Bayou, MS. Evers became a salesman for T. R. M. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company. Evers helped organize the RCNL's boycott of gasoline stations that denied blacks the use of the stations' restrooms.
(Evers during the boycott)
In 1954 Evers applied to the segregated University of Mississippi Law School, but his application was rejected because of his race. Also in 1954 Evers was named the NAACP's first field secretary for Mississippi.
(Evers (Center) as part of the N.A.A.C.P.)
In 1963 White supremacists threw a Molotov cocktail at Evers’ house. Also in 1963 Evers was nearly run down by a car after he emerged from the NAACP office in Jackson, MS.
(Evers in 1963)
On June 12th, 1963 Medgar Evers died of a bullet in the back from White supremacists in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He was 37 years old.
(Evers’ funeral)
Today is his 92nd birthday and we would all like to say happy birthday and rest in peace Medgar Evers.
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