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; FREEDOM HERO: MEDGAR WILEY EVERS by Sina from Washington State ... ; Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. He was the third of four children; his father was the owner of a small farm and worked at a nearby sawmill.
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Medgar Wiley Evers was born July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, and attended school there until he was inducted into the army in 1943. After serving in Normandy, he attended Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University), majoring in business administration.
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In 1995, Myrlie Evers Williams was elected the Chairman of the National Board of Directors of the NAACP. Medgar Evers College, CUNY, founded in 1970, is another strong, surviving expression of the spirit and legacy of Medgar Wiley Evers.
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Shortly before his death, CIVIL RIGHTS activist Medgar Wiley Evers was described in the New York Times as the movement's "quiet integrationist." Although his contemporary MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. achieved greater fame for organizing nonviolent demonstrations and boycotts, Evers was an equally dedicated reformer,
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Medgar Wiley Evers Sergeant, United States Army Civil Rights Leade ... Medgar Wiley Evers was born at Decauter, Mississippi, on July 2, 1925. ... I'm here to visit the gravesite of one Medgar Wiley Evers, the first Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who from 1954 -
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Medgar Evers (1925-1963), field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was one of the first martyrs of the civil rights movement. ... The Mississippi in which Medgar Evers lived was a place of blatant discrimination where blacks dared not even speak of civil rights,
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