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17 de may. de 2024 · Medgar Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Miss., U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Miss.) was an American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights movement. Evers served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. Afterward he and his elder ...
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4 de may. de 2024 · Published: May. 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM PDT. JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Medgar Evers is a civil rights icon and native Mississippian who died fighting for freedom. The trailblazer received the nation’s highest civilian honor. On Friday, Evers posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
8 de may. de 2024 · Merdies Hayes. May 8, 2024 . 3:00 PM. 2 min read. Advertisement. Washington, D.C. The late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson Miss. home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on May 3. He was named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Hace 3 días · Delmar Dennis, who acted as a key witness for the prosecution at the 1994 trial, said Beckwith boasted of his role in the death of Medgar Evers at several Ku Klux Klan rallies and similar ...
23 de may. de 2024 · The Assassination of Medgar Evers at the Medgar & Myrlie Evers National Monument. On June 12, 1963, after returning home from a meeting, Medgar Evers was shot while standing in the carport of his home. Evers was shot by white supremacist, Byron De La Beckwith. His death was the first of a national Civil Rights activist.
9 de may. de 2024 · Medgar Evers stood against the brutality of Jim Crow segregation, often facing threats, violence and death simply for daring to envision a nation where the rights and dignity of Black Americans would be fully recognized.
17 de may. de 2024 · Medgar Evers sacrificed his life to that danger in June of 1963, when he was murdered while returning from a meeting of civil rights activists to his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by a segregationist.
