March 12, 2019
Medgar Evers was Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary beginning in 1954. He led voter registration drives and boycotts to push for racial equality. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist outside his family's Jackson home (pictured) on June 12, 1963. File Photo by Trip Burns
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