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Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, In Decatur, MS. His childhood was harsh because his father died because he talked to a white woman and of course racism.
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Evers entered Alcorn because he served in the World War II. Even though it was a black school they still had to give him an education. While he was at the university he met Myrlie and married her in 1951.
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In 1954 Evers joined the NAACP while he was their he started working on selling insurance. Then couple of months later he got promoted to the secretary position.
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During his campaign wanted to desegregate the schools so he boycotted against Board of Education case to desegregate schools and have equality. Declared segregated was unconstitutional.
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Evers is investigating blacks deaths to prove the KKK was doing wrong to the blacks and also wanted to prove that we should have equality.
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After all the boycotting and protesting Evers still had a massive resistance to Whites. He kept confidence that they would have equality.
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Medgar died on June 12, 1963 he got ambushed by a white merchant shot him.
