Civil Rights · Voter Registration · Community Leadership
Medgar Wiley Evers
1925 – 1963
Evers became the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, leading voter-registration drives and campaigns against racial violence, and helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi.
•First NAACP field secretary in Mississippi
•One of the defining martyrs of the American civil-rights struggle
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