Medgar Evers
By Jennifer Miranda Jacquelyne
Antuche, Marisol Roman
Early Life
 Medgar
Evers was born on July
2,1925 Decatur, Mississippi he
died on June 12 1963.
 Dropped out of tenth grade in
1943.
 Fought in WWII was honorably
discharged in 1945 as a Sergeant
Early Life
 Enrolled
at Alcorn
State University in
1948 majoring in
business
administration.
 On December
14,1951 he married
classmate Myrlie
Beasley and had two
children
Civil Rights
 When
Medgar Evers was rejected at
the University of Mississippi Law
School he became part of the
NAACP.
 He became a target to so many treats
after he became a Civil Rights leader.
Civil Rights
Evers made public
investigations on the
cases on Emmett Till.
 On May 28 ,1963 a
Molotov cocktail was
thrown in to his
home.
 In June he made a
speech where outline
the goals for the
Jackson movement

Time line
 1925Medgar
Wiley Evers was born July
2.1935
 He was in the army until 1945.
 1962Medgar Evers had his friend admitted
to the University of Mississippi with the
help of the US government.
 1963Medgar Evers was assassinated on
June 12.
CIVIL RIGHTS
 Medgar
Evers was one of the first martyrs
of the civil rights movements, whose death
prompted President John F. Kennedy to
ask Congress for a comprehensive civil
rights bill, signed by President Johnson in
1964.
 The bill, known as the civil rights act 1964,
made illegal all discrimination based on
race, color, religion, gender, or national
origin.
After death
 On
June 12, 1963, as he was
returning home, Medgar Evers was
killed by an assassin’s bullet.
 Black and white leaders from around
the nation came to Jackson for his
funeral and then gathered at Arlington
National Cemetery for his interment.
After death
 Following
his death, his brother, Charles,
took over Medgar’s position as state field
secretary for the NAACP.
 Finally, in a third trial in 1994 (and thirtyone years after Evers’ murder), Beckwith
was convicted and sentenced to life in
prison.
Finally
 The
legacy of Medgar Evers is everywhere
present in the Mississippi of today. This
peaceful man, who had constantly urged
that “violence is not the way” but yet did
every thing he could do.
 When Medgar died in 1963, only 28,000
blacks were registered voters. By 1971,
there were 250,000 and by 1982 over
500,000 voter ”.
Pictures
Biblogphy
 Internet Sources http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/mswriters/dir/evers_medgar/
 http://www.biography.com/search/article.d
o?id=9542324
 http://www.africawithin.com/bios/medgar_e
vers.htm
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