who was medgar evers?

Answer 1

Medgar Evers was one of the first martyrs of the civil-rights movement. He was born in 1925 and graduated from Alcorn A&M College in 1952. His first job out of college was traveling around rural Mississippi selling insurance. He soon grew enraged at the despicable conditions of poor black families in his state, and joined the NAACP. In 1954, he was appointed Mississippi's first field secretary. He fought for the enforcement of the 1954 court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka which outlawed school segregation; he fought for the right to vote, and he advocated boycotting merchants who discriminated. He worked unceasingly despite the threats of violence that his speeches engendered. He gave much of himself to this struggle, and in 1963, he gave his life. On June 13, 1963, he drove home from a meeting, stepped out of his car, and was shot in the back.

Answer 2

Medgar evers was an African-American from Illinois who went to Mississippi to visit relatives prior to the Civil Rights Act. He was murdered by white vigilantes after he supposedly made a comment to a white woman outside a store. It was her word against his, so he lost.

Answer 3

etpilot is referring to a young boy named Emmitt Till, but the rest of their info is reasonably accurate.

Answer 4

He was a well known and highly respected black activist from the 1960's.

Answer 5

HE WAS A BLACK MAN FIGHTING FOR EQUAL RIGHTS WHEN HE WAS ASSASSINATED AND THEN HE BECAME A SAINT.