The archives of #MyrlieEvers papers now housed at Pomona College include photos filled with hope & love from early in her marriage to #MedgarEvers . Their strength, their plans for a future together w/their 3 children ended 60 years ago tonight. We must never forget.
1964 Byron de la Beckwith arrested for the murder of #MedgarEvers finally convicted in 1994 CNN Clarion Ledger Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Sun Herald The Dispatch Starkville Daily News The Natchez Democrat 16 WAPT News
Mr. #MedgarEvers ; WWII veteran & graduate of #AlconState Univ, who organized new chapters of the NAACP (under Mr. T.R.M Howard’s mentorship) in #Mississippi prior to serving as their State Field Secretary for the National Office.
Thank you for your service & sacrifice sir. 🇺🇸✊🏾
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#MedgarEvers
Harry and Harriett #Moore
#EmmetTill
#JimmieLeeJackson
#HueyPNewton
and many others who fought for freedom
Daughters of #MedgarEvers and #MyrlieEvers ; #MLK and #CorettaScottKing ; and #MalcolmX and #BettyShabazz . #Legacy #Love
60 years ago today on June 11, 1963, President Kennedy addressed the nation on civil rights. He defined the civil rights crisis as moral, as well as constitutional and legal, and announced that he would submit civil rights legislation to Congress. #JFK60
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On this day in 1963, civil rights leader and organizer #MedgarEvers was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home.
I remember his legacy and his family, who I am praying for today.
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY and his wife is still with us at 90 years of age..... #MyrlieEvers #MedgarEvers
On this day in 1963, civil rights leader and organizer #MedgarEvers was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his home. We remember his legacy and his family. The work continues.
'The Fog' (set in June, 1963): After hearing that Sally has been asking questions about #MedgarEvers ' murder earlier that month, Betty hallucinates that her mother is tending to his wounds.
Making slow progress…
Title: Dear Medgar
Medium: Pen on Paper
#art #abstract #penart #drawing #wednesdaythought #painting #contemporaryart #medgarevers
It's fitting that on this day we shout #TeachTruth we also celebrate the legacy and life of #MedgarEvers
This IS American History ✊🏾
And in that way that American evenings far too often unfold, just as the President completed this historic speech, the great voting rights advocate and Mississippi NAACP #MedgarEvers was shot to death on his driveway by a white supremacist.
Whoopi has been in 3 GREAT movies about the suffering of blk ppl! #Till #MedgarEvers & #ColorPurple #movies ✊🏾🥰🍿🎬