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  • Others, such as Medgar Evers of the NAACP and Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, carried on.

    What Obama's Victory Means for Racial Politics 2008

  • Dylan sang "Only a Pawn in Their Game," about the assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, which occurred just the previous month.

    Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011

  • Manohla DargisÂfromÂThe New York Times rightly points out that the most poignant sequence in the movie is when, having heard news of Medgar Evers' assassination, the bus driver orders all negros off the bus.

    Dyane Jean François: Film Review: How The Help Failed Us Dyane Jean François 2011

  • Manohla DargisfromThe New York Times rightly points out that the most poignant sequence in the movie is when, having heard news of Medgar Evers' assassination, the bus driver orders all negros off the bus.

    Dyane Jean François: Film Review: How The Help Failed Us Dyane Jean François 2011

  • Manohla DargisÂfromÂThe New York Times rightly points out that the most poignant sequence in the movie is when, having heard news of Medgar Evers' assassination, the bus driver orders all negros off the bus.

    Dyane Jean François: Film Review: How The Help Failed Us Dyane Jean François 2011

  • Barbour's statement now seem particularly ill-advised as, on June 12, 1963, civil rights activist and U.S. army veteran Medgar Evers was gunned down in Jackson, Mississippi - the same town where James Craig Anderson was beaten to death - by White Citizens' Council member Byron De La Beckwith.

    Michael Deibert: What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America Michael Deibert 2011

  • The NAACP is no stranger to domestic terrorism: as the surviving friends and family of Harry T. and Henrietta Moore, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, and Emmitt Till, not to mention the 168 killed and 450 injured in the Alfred T.

    NAACP to Pete King: Drop your effort to stereotype Muslims 2011

  • Dylan sang "Only a Pawn in Their Game," about the assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, which occurred just the previous month.

    Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011

  • Barbour's statement now seem particularly ill-advised as, on June 12, 1963, civil rights activist and U.S. army veteran Medgar Evers was gunned down in Jackson, Mississippi - the same town where James Craig Anderson was beaten to death - by White Citizens' Council member Byron De La Beckwith.

    Michael Deibert: What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America Michael Deibert 2011

  • Dylan sang "Only a Pawn in Their Game," about the assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, which occurred just the previous month.

    Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011

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