Medgar Evers

Birth

Jul 2, 1925

Born in Decatur, Mississippi

Joined the U.S. army

Nov 16, 1943

Evers is sent to the army for World War II

Discharged from the U.S. army

Apr 16, 1945

Receives an honorable discharge and leaves the army.

Enrolled at Alcorn College( Alcorn State University)

Sep 16, 1948

Medgar Evers gets married

Dec 24, 1951

Evers marries his classmate Myrlie Beasley.

Move to Mound Bayou

Jun 1, 1952

Evers moves to Mound Bayou and works as an insurance salesman.

Medgar Evers applies to the University of Mississippi

Feb 17, 1954

Medgar Evers applies to the University of Mississippi Law School, but gets rejected.

Medgar Evers becomes field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP.

Nov 24, 1954

Medgar Evers is threatened continuously

May 28, 1963

Medgar Evers is threatened continuously. In May 1963, a molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of his home.Five days before his death, he was nearly run down by a car after he emerged from the NAACP office.

Medgar Evers is killed

Jun 12, 1963

12:40 a.m. on June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers was unloading his car in his driveway when Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan shot him in the back of the head at point blank range.