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Medgar Wiley Evers ( Decatur, 2 luglio 1925 – Jackson, 12 giugno 1963) è stato un attivista e politico statunitense . Il suo assassinio ha ispirato diverse opere, tra cui L'agguato - Ghosts from the Past di Rob Reiner, candidato ai premi Oscar 1997 per il miglior attore non protagonista .
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.
17 mag 2024 · Medgar Evers (born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Miss., U.S.—died June 12, 1963, Jackson, Miss.) 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. Evers served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. Afterward he and his elder ...
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3 apr 2014 · Civil 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 investigated...
Medgar Evers. Throughout 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.
12 giu 2023 · A studio portrait of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers taken in the early 1960s. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights...
12 giu 2020 · On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist outside his home in Decatur, Mississippi. His death sparked outrage across the nation. Later that...
