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  1. 15 de mai. de 2024 · Chronicling the life and tragic assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story offers a poignant representation of his enduring legacy in Mississippi.

  2. 17 de mai. de 2024 · She published the memoir For Us, the Living (1967), earned a degree in sociology at Pomona College (1968), and made an unsuccessful bid for election to the U.S. Congress (1970).

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  3. 14 de mai. de 2024 · Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), poses for a photo, Aug. 9, 1955, in Jackson, Miss. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, Mississippi's congressional delegation sent a letter urging President Joe Biden to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to civil rights leader Evers. He was assassinated outside his ...

  4. 9 de mai. de 2024 · This award serves not just as recognition, but as a clarion call to preserve and protect the story of Black Americans’ quest for equality and their vital role in shaping the nation. The fight for civil rights continues as new challenges emerge, and honoring Evers compels us to defend democracy, champion equality and act with ...

  5. 4 de mai. 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.

  6. 3 de mai. de 2024 · Mariner Books. In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie Evers’ relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.

  7. 9 de mai. de 2024 · Medgar Evers, Field Secretary of the NAACP in Mississipp­i from 1954 to 1963. Medgar Evers, a decorated soldier who fought for freedom abroad and found none at home, who pursued justice in the most violent state in the Union. Medgar Evers, who dressed as a field hand to find witnesses to testify in the trial of the murderers of Emmett Till in ...