Fifty years ago this week, Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss.
At the time of his demise, Evers was Mississippi’s NAACP field secretary. In fact, it was because he was Mississippi’s NAACP field secretary that he died way too young, just a few weeks shy of what would have been his 38th birthday.
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