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Evers, Medgar Wiley

Born: 1925 AD
Died: 1963 AD, at 38 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
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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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