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Medger Evers kind of kicked some ass...It should be talked about more often.

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Friend of mine who is a geography professor and civil rights movement expert shared this  on his FB page.  I had no idea Medger Evers was a veteran. I feel like a dumbass for not knowing, but wanted to share the story.

On this day in 1946, on his 21st birthday, Medgar Evers and six other World War II veterans, including his brother, Charles, tried to vote in Decatur, Mississippi, only to be turned away by an armed white mob. That day, Medgar Evers vowed that he would never be whipped again. He and other Black war veterans joined together to fight the civil rights movement. After graduating from Alcorn College, he tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi School of Law — only to be turned away. NAACP officials considered taking up his case but was so impressed with him they decided instead to hire him as first field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP. He put thousands of miles a year on his Oldsmobile, recruiting new members, reviving branches and investigating unpunished violence against Black Americans, including the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. On May 20, 1963, he talked on television about the mistreatment of Black Mississippians: “The years of change are upon us. In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world.” Three weeks later, he was assassinated in the driveway of his Jackson home. On his birthday in 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it hours later

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I saw an HBO documentary on Medgar Evers when I was around high school age. I remember it being pretty powerful and have revered him since.

Well there is a reason he is not more well known.   

Things I was wrong about:

1. There is a statue of him at Ole Miss.  It is not Evers, it is James Meredith the first admitted black student at Ole Miss.

2. For some reason I thought he enrolled but that was wrong.  He was rejected because of his race in spite of Brown vs Board of Education.

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I remember that when they exhumed his body for some bullet fragments that they marveled at how well preserved he was over 25 years later. He mummified like an Egyptian King or something. He was remarkable even in death.

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