Medgar+Evers

Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. Determined to get the education he deserved after the lynching of a family friend, Evers walked twelve miles to and from school to earn his high school diploma.In 1943 he was sent to the army along with his older brother.In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn College he majored in business administration. Medgar became involved as an activist after moving to Mound bayou Mississippi. he became part of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL), he helped organize boycotts, the denied blacks use of their restrooms.Evers applied to the then-segregated University or Mississippi Law School in February 1954. When his application was rejected, Evers filed a lawsuit against the university, and became the focus of a NAACP campaign to desegregate the school.a case aided by the U.S Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. board of education//.//That same year, due to his involvement, the NAACP's National Office suggested he become Mississippi’s first field secretary for the NAACP. Evers was involved in a boycott campaign against white merchants and was instrumental in eventually desegregating the University of Mississippi when that institution was finally forced to enroll James Meredith in 1962.Being so involved with all the boycott and being part of the organization he felt like more of a target. he also had his public investigations in the murder of Emmett Till and his vocal support of Clyde Kennard made him a prominent black leader and therefore vulnerable to attack. On June 12, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway after just returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 .303 rifle that ricocheted into his Jackson, Mississippi home.He died at a local hospital about 50 minutes later just hours after J.F.K speech about civil rights.he was murdered by a K.K.K member Byron De La Beckwith. who was convicted and went to jail.