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Medgar Evers, at the time of his assassination in 1963, was the Field Secretary for the Mississippi NAACP and, thus one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in that state. Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. Evers was inducted into the US Army in 1943 and served in Normandy the following year. After his discharge from the service, Evers enrolled at Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University).

While at Alcorn, he met his future wife, Myrlie Beasley of Vicksburg, and the following year they were married on December 24, 1951. After their graduation from Alcorn in 1952, they moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Evers worked at an insurance agency until 1954. While in Mound Bayou, Evers helped form local chapters of the NAACP in the predominantly African American Delta region of the state. His unsuccessful attempt in 1954 to attend the University of Mississippi Law School attracted national attention, especially since it came after the US Supreme Court decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional.

Evers soon worked full-time for the NAACP and moved to Jackson to run the statewide office. As state field secretary for the civil rights organization, he led a boycott of white Jackson merchants, who discriminated against black customers, and investigated racially motivated crimes against African Americans throughout the state. Evers also supported James Meredith’s successful effort to become the first African American to enter the University of Mississippi in 1962. Such high-profile leadership of the NAACP angered white supremacists throughout the state. He was assassinated outside his home in Jackson on June 12, 1963.

Black and white leaders from around the nation gathered in Jackson for Evers’s funeral. His brother, Charles, took over his position as state field secretary. Byron De La Beckwith stood trial twice in the 1960s for the assassination of Medgar Evers but was finally convicted in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison.

Evers’s legacy is ever-present in Mississippi. Ten years after his death, Mississippi had over 250,000 black voters (as opposed to 28,000 in 1963), 145 black elected officials, and African Americans were enrolled in each of the state’s public and private institutions of higher education.

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damn when did second thought get hit with the dominican ray

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https://xcancel.com/FredoXPresso/status/1932536355038318997

wee anarchists mentioned (put in wrong thread at first)

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I figured I'd stay home and gather more energy to be more useful in future praxis. Instead I'm doomscrolling Israel killing kids in Iran.

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Post wash haircut update. After taking the volume out and trimming it turns out i lost more length than I thought but its totally fine, after some adjusting I have a pixie cut mullet, eaily the most they them hair I've had ever and it's really cute

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The 2021 calendar is the same as 1999, 1993 and 1982

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rantJust dissapointed that the game doesnt end with the british lady sabotage the time travel company that lets the rich recklessly change the past for petty reasons and lets other people to get literally wiped from the timeline. Instead in the end she times travel back to save her soulmate then she and her wife gets time wiped at the end. The message is "just because something is historically insignificant and replacable doesnt mean its worthless" which is a fine message on its own, but the events that plays out feels like defeatist bullshit that only happened because oh no fighting corps is cliche therefore we shall accept corporate overlords controlling TIME itself.

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Edwin Díaz doing his best imitation of the Fernando Rodney Experience, records incredibly ugly save with the tying run on third

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My "Caption this." mojo is way off. I about to post it but then I remembered the obvious: a pic of Trump will surely not be popular. Still - what a freaky photo. And it's very old news but I'm always amused how he only does his face so the color of his hands never matches.

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gamer-gulag been engaging in comfort food by playing gta online and today was weird because two separate lobbies were talking about politics.

One was about immigration and the riots where I and one other person were cool.

The other started with Ukraine but quickly devolved into me making fun of a self admitted doctor of philosophy for keeping his Hegel up the wrong way

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