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    1963 Evers was awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal. Evers was murdered in 1963 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home...
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  • Medgar Evers College is a public college in New York City. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), offering baccalaureate and...
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    over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as chairwoman of the...
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    ceremony honoree. Medgar Evers was launched on 29 October 2011. She was christened on 12 November 2011 by Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams. The ceremony...
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  • from Greenwood, Mississippi known for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and a...
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    Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN, FAA LID: JAN) is a city-owned civil-military airport located in Jackson, Mississippi...
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    civil rights movement along with his younger brother Medgar Evers. After serving in World War II, Evers began his career as a disc jockey at WHOC in Philadelphia...
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    The President Street–Medgar Evers College station (originally President Street station) is a station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the New York City...
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    The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, also known as Medgar Evers House, is a historic house museum at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive...
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    figure Medgar Evers". New York Post. Retrieved October 2, 2020. "MTA Renames 2 Brooklyn Subway Stations After Civil Rights Icon Medgar Evers". October...
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  • supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. James Woods was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
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    Medgar Evers Historic District is a U.S. historic district and residential neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. The neighborhood contains the Medgar...
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    Betty Shabazz (category Medgar Evers College faculty)
    daughters as a widow, Shabazz pursued higher education, and went to work at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. Following the 1995 arrest of her daughter...
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    Living: The Medgar Evers Story is a 1983 American made-for-television biographical film based on the 1967 book, For Us, the Living, by Myrlie Evers-Williams...
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  • Statistics. Retrieved 2009-04-05. "Medgar Evers College". Medgar Evers College. Retrieved 2009-04-06. "Medgar Evers College". Carnegie Classification of...
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  • activist Medgar Evers who was murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12, 1963. Although it was widely known that Evers was shot...
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    Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story (2019), and Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (2024). Reid was born...
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    terrorism in Birmingham, and the assassination of Medgar Evers. The latter's brother Charles Evers, who took over as Mississippi NAACP Field Director...
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  • authored legislation creating the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. This social justice advocacy organization has become a renowned...
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    and academic representation in CUNY, leading to the establishment of Medgar Evers College and the implementation of the Open Admissions policy in 1970...
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  • United States through Baldwin's recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations...
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    high-profile Civil Rights Era murder cases, including the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi, the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham...
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    Athletic Association (NJCAA). Baruch Brooklyn CCNY Hunter John Jay Lehman Medgar Evers York Bronx BMCC Hostos Kingsborough Queensborough 1978 - The CUNYAC was...
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  • written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. Showing support for African-Americans...
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  • entrepreneur and surgeon. He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson...
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  • of the injustices suffered by blacks in the South. Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar Evers, said years later that the case "struck a spark of indignation...
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  • Byron De La Beckwith, charged with the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two earlier trials in Mississippi in 1964 had resulted...
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    Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba, Congo leader, of Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year...
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  • Medgar Evers Was 80". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010. Vollers, Maryanne (April 1995). Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers...
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  • Supporting Actor in a Drama Series 1983 For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story Medgar Evers Television movie NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in...
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