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A 12 page research paper that offers an extensive overview of the life and work of Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers. The writer argues that Evers' life and career indicates how Evers epitomized leadership and that his legacy consists of far more than simply the notoriety of his assassination. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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(NAACP) in the state," was assassinated as he returned home for the evening.1 The bullet that killed Evers struck him from behind, in the back.2 It exited his chest and
blasted through one of the front windows of his house.3 Evers had been gaining in notoriety, as he was widely recognized as a man of extraordinary courage, who frequently fought
isolated battles against discrimination and the fires of racial hatred. More than any other African American in the State of Mississippi, he had garnered the "collective wrath of the white
population."4 The murder drew the attention of the nation and the world, as the murder spotlighted the virulent nature of Mississippi racism. For the first time, white officials in Mississippi
felt that it was necessary to denounce a killing associated with the nascent Civil Rights movement.5 A white man, Byron de la Beckwith, an enthusiastic racist, was soon implicated
as the killer and there was considerable forensic evidence against him. There were two mistrials in the winter and spring of 1964, as two all white male juries failed
to reach a unanimous verdict.6 It would take the passage of quarter century before the social atmosphere would be such that Beckwith could be brought to pay for his crime.
In most cases, this is the focus and the extent to which African American scholarship mentions the life and work of Medgar Evers. In many standard texts that cover
African American history, Medgar Wiley Evers is barely mentioned and in some he is completely ignored. When Evers is included in Black history, it is usually only briefly and then
as the victim of assassination, or he is considered to be a "relatively obscure leader referenced in connection with his near decade-long role as the NAACPs field secretary in Mississippi."7
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