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Medgar Evers
(1925-1963)
Who Was Medgar Evers?
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.
As such, he organized voter-registration efforts and economic boycotts, and investigated crimes perpetrated against Black people. Evers was assassinated outside of his Mississippi home in 1963, and after years of on-again, off-again legal proceedings, his killer was sent to prison in 1994.
In 2017, President Barack Obama designated Evers' home a national historic landmark.
Early Life and Education
Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. Growing up in a Mississippi farming family, Evers was drafted into the U.S.
Army in 1943.
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He fought in both France and Germany during World War II and received an honorable discharge in 1946.
Evers went on to enroll at Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University) in Lorman, Mississippi, in 1948. He married fellow student Myrlie Beasley during his senior year, before