Medgar Evers's Life And Accomplishments

Medgar Evers, whose full name is Medgar Wiley Evers, was a civil and human right activist, who fought for racial injustice between the whites and the blacks. Evers served as a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).Medgar organized voter-registration effort, boycotted companies that discriminated the African Americans, and collected information and made the public know about civil right abuses in Mississippi. The southern authorities refused to enforce the US Supreme Court landmark 1954 decision against segregation of public institution, this angered Evers and made him more dedicated as to his work as a civil right activist. Medgar helped to investigate the death of Emmett Till, a young teenager

He is the son of a domestic worker and a farmer, James ever, as a child Evers walked three miles to school every day, and was a very hardworking student. In high school Evers started organizing NAACP branches in Mississippi. He joined the US army in 1943, and fought during World War II both in France and Germany and he collected reputable discharge in 1946. In 1948, Evers gained admission into Alcorn College (Now Alcorn state university) in lorman Mississippi, a segregated land-grant institution, while at Alcorn College, Evers met a nursing student called Myrlie Beasley, he married her in 1951, and they had three children. Medgar graduated from Alcorn College in 1952 with a bachelor’s degree in business

Regarding his new position as the state field secretary, Evers had to move with his family from mound bayou to Jackson, and established an NAACP group office. After ten month the office was moved to masonic temple on lynch street. When Evers assumed the office as a state field secretary, he faced a lot of challenges. The blacks suffered racial violence, Evers investigated nine racial murders and alleged maltreatment cases involving the black victims. Even as he faced a lot of challenges as a state field secretary of NAACP, Evers still persisted in his effort to end segregation in public facilities, schools and restaurants. In the spring of 1963, Evers spearheaded the blacks in Jackson and began mass demonstrations and rallies to protest Jackson mayor Alan Thompson who refused to appoint a biracial committee to examine Jackson’s racial problems.
On 12 June 1963¸Evers was assassinated. Evers returned from one of the NAACP meetings around 12:20am, as he got out of his car and walked towards his house, a shot was fired from a high power riffle to the back of Evers. He was taken to the university of Mississippi medical center but could not survive due to loss of blood and internal