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Jun 20, 2023
President Kennedy Meets Medgar Evers’ Family at White House
June 20, 1963 - The family of the slain integration leader, Medgar Evers, met President Kennedy at the White House today. Secretary of...
Jun 15, 2023
Roy Wilkins Delivers Eulogy at Medgar Evers’ Funeral
June 15, 1963 - Southern politicians were accused in Jackson, Miss., today of responsibility in the death of Medgar Evers, a Negro...
Jun 12, 2023
President “Appalled by Barbarity” of Evers Slaying
June 12, 1963 - President Kennedy, “appalled by the barbarity” of the assassination of a top NAACP integration leader in Jackson, Miss....
Jun 12, 2023
Evers Had Premonition of Death
June 12, 1963 - Medgar Evers, a native of Decatur, Miss., and an Army veteran of World War II who was murdered this morning, left a mass...
Jun 12, 2023
🚨Medgar Evers Assassinated in Mississippi
June 12, 1963 - A sniper lying in ambush shot and fatally wounded a Negro civil rights leader in Jackson, Mississippi early today. The...
Jan 1, 2022
President Hails Roy Wilkins of NAACP
Jan. 1, 1962 - President Kennedy hailed Roy Wilkins (pictured center in 1959 with Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall) of the...
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