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	Medgar Evers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evers was a native of Decatur, Mississippi, attending school there until being inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943.
		In 1970, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, NY as part of the City University of New York.
		During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for autopsy, and found to be in a surprisingly excellent state of preservation as a result of embalming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medgar_Evers (1401 words)

	Medgar Evers
		Medgar Evers (1925-1963), field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was one of the first martyrs of the civil rights movement.
		Evers was born in 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi.
		Evers must have also had a sense that his life would be cut short when what had begun as threats turned increasingly to violence.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/medgar_evers.htm (2305 words)

	::Medgar Evers::
		Medgar Evers was the field secretary of the NAACP and a major figure in civil rights history.
		Evers paid the ultimate price for his commitment to the cause of civil rights when he was murdered on June 12th, 1963.
		Medgar Evers was born in 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /medgar_evers.htm (929 words)

	Be Aware - Medgar Evers
		Medgar and his family needed peace, both from white Mississippi and the likelihood (according to Medgar) that he would be killed, and the pressure of being caught between civil rights groups.
		Medgar called Myrlie several times that day, the last in his life, to chat with the children and to tell her he loved her.
		Medgar was away at a meeting, then after a couple of stops, dropped someone off at a friend's house, he then drove home.
	www.daintycrew.com /evers.htm (1095 words)

	myrlie Evers-Williams
		In the days and weeks that followed, she showed her courage by continuing Medgar's fight for racial equality, even in the face of threats on her own life; and when her husband's murderer was allowed to walk free, Myrlie Evers showed her incredible persistence by working for 30 years to see justice done.
		Evers" in court, and during her testimony, Ross Barnett, then governor of Mississippi, sat with the accused, patting him on the back and putting his arm around him for support.
		Undeterred, Evers informed the attorney general that she would reopen the trial with independent counsel; in the face of the bad publicity that this would generate for his state, the attorney general reconsidered his decision.
	www.edwardsly.com /everswm.htm (2579 words)

	Medgar Evers Biography - Biography.com
		Later that year, Evers moved to the state capital of Jackson and became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.
		Evers was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery, and the NAACP posthumously awarded him their 1963 Spingarn Medal.
		Charles Evers went on to become a major political figure in the state; in 1969, he was elected the mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, becoming the first African-American mayor of a racially mixed Southern town since the Reconstruction.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9542324 (512 words)

	African Americans - Medgar Wiley Evers, Civil Rights Activist and member of the NAACP
		Medgar Evers was one of the first martyrs of the civil-rights movement.
		Medgar Evers, State Secretary for the NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi, is seen in this Aug. 9, 1955, photo.
		Myrlie Louise Evers, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, leans down to kiss her late husband's forehead before the casket was opened for public viewing at a funeral home in Jackson, Miss., June 13, 1963.
	www.africanamericans.com /MedgarEvers.htm (882 words)

	Medgar Wiley Evers, Sergeant, United States Army
		Medgar Wiley Evers was born at Decauter, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925.
		To Medgar Evers, who died 39 years ago, and his widow, whom I don't know, have never met and have spoken to only once during a phone conversation from her home in Bend, Oregon.
		Evers went to investigate, as he did in dozens of beatings and murders of fls throughout the state.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /mwevers.htm (3384 words)

	Medgar Evers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Evers, Medgar (1925-1963), American civil rights leader, born in Decatur, Mississippi.
		Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York
		Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, public, coeducational institution in Brooklyn, New York, part of the...
	encarta.msn.com /Medgar_Evers.html (111 words)

	Medgar Evers
		Evers later recalled that Tingle’s bloody clothes remained in the field for months near the tree where he was hanged.
		Evers negotiated with the NAACP National Office for Myrlie to be appointed as the office’s paid secretary.
		Medgar Evers is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature45/medgar_evers.htm (2516 words)

	MWP: Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
		Despite the court’s ruling, Evers applied for and was denied admission to the University of Mississippi Law School, but his attempt to integrate the state’s oldest public university attracted the attention of the NAACP’s national office, and that same year he was appointed Mississippi’s first field secretary for the NAACP.
		A statue of Medgar Evers was erected to honor him in his adopted hometown of Jackson on June 28, 1992.
		The assassination of Medgar Evers is placed within the context of race relations in Mississippi at mid-century by means of archival photography, interviews with Myrlie Evers and convicted murderer Byron de la Beckwith, and reenactments of murder trial scenes.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar (1218 words)

	The My Hero Project - Medgar Wiley Evers
		Perhaps one of the most shocking things about Medgar Evers is the number of years it took for his murderer to be caught and sentenced.
		Evers and his wife then moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and began to establish local chapters of the NAACP throughout the Delta.
		Medgar Evers is a hero in my eyes because he worked hard to end segregation and organized activities such as integrated schools, restaurants, and voter registrations drives.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Evers_NW (1430 words)

	The Clarion-Ledger: Mississippi's News Source
		Evers could surely feel the love and devotion emanating from his modest abode as he turned into 2332 Guynes St. Unfortunately, on that evening, June 12, 1963, Evers was forever suspended from his comfort and joy.
		Evers, a World War II veteran, was a neighbor, a father and Myrlie's husband and soulmate.
		She is the passionate and undaunted guardian of his legacy, having started the Medgar Evers Institute, a struggling organization charged with sharing Medgar's legacy.
	orig.clarionledger.com /news/0306/12/meric.html (548 words)

	Worldandnation: Shaping Medgar Evers' legacy
		Medgar Evers, field secretary of the state NAACP, was shot and killed by a white segregationist in the driveway of his Jackson home June 12, 1963.
		Evers was Mississippi NAACP field secretary from 1954 until he was killed.
		As a World War II veteran, Evers tried to register to vote in 1946 at the Newton County Courthouse in Decatur, only to be turned away by a white mob.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/06/16/Worldandnation/Shaping_Medgar_Evers_.shtml (419 words)

	NPR : The Legacy of Medgar Evers
		Evers talks of organized resistance to Jim Crow laws in Jackson, Miss., shortly before he was assassinated.
		Evers applied for, and was denied admission to, the University of Mississippi Law School.
		Evers' assassination was a flash point for activism in the fl community.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1294360 (913 words)

	AAA Traveler - Medgar Evers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Myrlie Evers recently donated her papers and the papers of her slain husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
		The civil rights struggle is one of the central conflicts in Mississippi history, and the papers of Medgar Evers reveal the thoughts and actions of one of its key figures.
		Medgar Evers was shot in the back in front of his home in Jackson, Miss., on June 12, 1963, while his wife Myrlie and their children were inside.
	www.ouraaa.com /traveler/0207/medgar_s.html (274 words)

	Medgar Evers
		Evers was assassinated on June 12, 1963 at the age of 38 in front of his home in Jackson as he returned from work.
		Evers’ wife and children heard the shots and ran to the front door where they saw him laying in a pool of blood with his keys in his hand.
		Evers’ brother Charles took over the position of field secretary for the NAACP and later he served as the Mayor of Fayette, Mississippi from 1969 through 1981.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/medgar_evars.htm (813 words)

	A Bullet From The Back Of A Bush -- Medgar Evers (Manfred Helfert)
		Medgar Evers became statewide news in January 1954, when he requested that his Alcorn College transcripts be sent to the University of Mississippi law school.
		Evers replied that it was only proper that he study law in the state where he intended to practice.
		Evers' new responsibilities included school desegregation and voter registration drives, upholding "morale" (urging people not to remove their names from petitions despite threats and intimidations), and investigating every incident of racial trouble that he could.
	www.bobdylanroots.com /ever.html (2731 words)

	Medgar Wiley Evers and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
		Although Medgar Evers was a quiet, humble man, he rose to prominence as a civil rights advocate.
		Evers and the subsequent legal action that resulted in the conviction of Byron De La Beckwith in 1994.
		“...It is the ghost of Medgar Evers that reigns...
	teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us /MHNLP/medgareverslp.htm (899 words)

	Black History Month - Medgar Evers
		Medgar Evers was a prominent civil rights activist of 1950s and early 1960s.
		Evers’ protests and efforts in assisting James Meredith become admitted to the University of Mississippi drew national attention.
		However, through the persistent efforts of Evers’ wife Myrlie, De La Beckwith was convicted in 1994 and spent the remainder of his life in prison.
	www.state.nj.us /blackhistorymonth/evers.htm (175 words)

	Medgar Evers' Background Information
		During his life time Medgar Evers traveled all across the state of Mississippi striving to increase the number of registered fl voters in the South as well as the membership of NAACP.
		Medgar Evers’ role in the trial resulting in many new enemies for Evers.
		Evers and his followers complained that fls were never hired in that shopping district.
	members.tripod.com /~LisaCowley/profile.html (471 words)

	Vignette: Medgar Evers
		Medgar Evers at the time of his assassination in 1963 was the Field Secretary for the Mississippi NAACP and thus one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in that state.
		Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi.
		Evers was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943 and served in Normandy in the following year.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/evers_medgar.htm (396 words)

	Medgar Wiley Evers Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		Evers was the most prominent civil rights leader in the state of Mississippi when he was killed.
		His brother, Charles Evers, took Medgar's place as field secretary, and in 1969 was elected as mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, the first fl mayor of a town in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
		In 1970, Medgar Evers College was founded as part of the City University of New York.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/medgar-wiley-evers-cri (704 words)

	Medgar Evers College
		Medgar Evers College (MEC) is a four-year, state-supported, coed, liberal arts college founded in 1969 in response to the desire of the community for a program of higher education for community residents of central Brooklyn.
		Medgar Evers College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
		Medgar Evers College is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
	www.petersons.com /blackcolleges/profiles/medgarevers.asp?sponsor=2904 (826 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pursuing the Past -- The Medgar Evers Assassination
		Evers' efforts to garner equal rights for Mississippi's fls and his work to tell the nation about his state's strict segregation incurred the wrath of many white supremacists.
		Evers' lengthy list of civil rights fights and victories made him a target for militant white supremacists.
		The gun used to kill Evers was retrieved with fresh fingerprints on it.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/media/clarion/kc_evers.html (634 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur Mississippi.
		On June 12, 1963, Evers was slain in the driveway of his home, by a sniper's bullet.
		Evers was also the subject in two Civil Rights file, wherein, he took part in demonstrations in Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/medgarevers.htm (205 words)

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