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Witness History: The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

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The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

19/06/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.

In June 1963 the murder of a prominent black civil rights activist and war hero in Mississippi shook the civil rights movement. Medgar Evers was working to overturn the racist policies in the American south which made him a target for white supremacists. His death caused national outrage and he was given a military funeral at the US national cemetery in Arlington as Farhana Haider reports. 


Photo: Roy Wilkins and Medgar Evers Being Arrested 1st June 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit Getty

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