Thursday, October 22, 2015

Trailblazers in Black History: Medgar Evers


 
Uploaded to YouTube on Jan 9, 2012

A short biography of Medgar Evers. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. He also worked to investigate crimes perpetrated against blacks. On June 12, 1963, Evers was shot dead.

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