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                     Medgar Evers

   The fight for equality has left us with many freedoms we all take for granted. We don't think enough of the people who actually struggled to give us those rights. Medgar Evers would be one of those whom we need to remember.

A Decatur, Mississippi native, born July 2, 1925 Medgar would fight at the Battle of Normandy, during WWII. Upon his return home, Evers enrolled at Alcorn State University as a business administration major. Medgar also played football, ran track, joined the debate team, sang in the school choir and also served as Junior Class President. It was at Alcorn State that he met his wife, Myrlie Beasley, whom he married the year before he graduated.

After they moved to Mound Bayou, MS, Medgar became President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. As part of the RCNL he helped organize the gas station boycott of stations that refused to allow non-whites to use the bathrooms. The boycott included distribution of bumper stickers that read, "Don't buy gas where you can't use the bathroom."

1954, Evers applied to a segregated University of Mississippi Law School. As his application was rejecected, his cause was picked up by the NAACP to desegregate the school.  The struggle being aided by the US Supreme Court deciscion Brown vs. Board of Education (347 US 483). December of the same year, Evers became the NAACP's field officer for Mississippi.

From Molotov cocktails thrown at his carport, to being nearly ran over as he left the NAACP office, Mr. Evers survived several death threats and attempts, in the weeks leading to his death. June 2 1963, Medgar Evers was shot in the back, as he got out of the car in his own driveway. 50 minutes later he died.  In 1970 the City of New York named their newest Public College for Evers.  1992 saw the statue to the left erected in his honor in his adopted hometown of Jackson.