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Evers, Medgar Wiley
Born: 1925 AD
Died: 1963 AD, at 38 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
Died: 1963 AD, at 38 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US black civil rights activist
1st Mississippi field director of NAACP 1954-1963
assassinated
Spingarn Medal 1963 (posthumous)
1st husband of Myrlie Evers-Williams 1951
brother of Charles Evers
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South by Maryanne Vollers (Paperback - Apr 1, 1995)  |
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