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A Visit to Medgar Evers’ Home — Video Dispatch

by Editor / Tuesday, November 19 2024 / Published in Dispatches from the Road

Clay visits Medgar Evers’ home, now a national monument. Medgar Evers was killed by a white supremacist here, in front of his house, on June 12, 1963. Evers was a peaceful, but determined, civil rights leader, for eight years and the NAACP Director in Mississippi. The man who killed him in cold blood was twice acquitted, by white only juries but finally found guilty in the 1990s, when Mr. Evers had been dead for a quarter century. On the day that Evers was cut down, President John F. Kennedy gave his strongest address on civil rights, from the White House on national television. Tomorrow, Montgomery and Selma. Every American who has the opportunity should visit these civil rights sites.

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