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Bookmark or Share- Medgar and Myrlie Evers' Yard and Garden - U.S. National Park ServiceMedgar Evers built a chain-link fence around the back yard, providing an enclosed space for the family’s German Shepherd, Heidi. Sweet-smelling honeysuckle grew along the fence, and Evers-Williams remembers that she planted beds of vegetables along the north and east of the property line. These beds were filled with mustard greens, collard ...
- Medgar Evers | Biography, Civil Rights Movement, Activist, & Facts ...Medgar Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Mississippi) 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.
- 7 Things You Should Know About Medgar Evers - HISTORYEvers was a World War II veteran who participated in the Normandy invasion. Born in Decatur, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925, Medgar Evers was the third of five children born to farmer and sawmill...
- Medgar Evers - Quotes, Death & Facts - BiographyCivil rights activist Medgar Evers was the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized voter-registration efforts and economic boycotts, and...
- Medgar Evers - NAACPThroughout his short life, Medgar Evers heroically spoke out against racism in the deeply divided South. He fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched an investigation into the Emmett Till lynching.
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