KNOWN TODAY more for his struggles for civil rights in Mississippi and his untimely death at the hands of an assassin than for his writings, Medgar Evers nevertheless left behind an impressive record of achievement.
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.
While at Alcorn, he was a member of the debate team, the college choir, and the football and track teams. He also held several student offices and was editor of the campus newspaper for two years and the annual for one year.
In recognition of his accomplishments at Alcorn, he was listed in Who's Who in American Colleges.
At Alcorn he met Myrlie Beasley of Vicksburg and they married on December 24, 1951. He received his BA degree the following semester and they moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, during which time Evers began to establish local chapters of the NAACP throughout the delta and organising boycotts of gasoline stations that refused to allow Blacks to use their restrooms.
He worked in Mound Bayou as an insurance agent until 1954, the year a Supreme Court decision ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
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The Sovereignty Commission spent years spying on Medgar Evers and here are just a few examples of records you can find ...
Evers Complains to Civil Rights Commission when Madison County black is shot to death by local sheriff
Medgar Evers makes a "strong NAACP address"
1959 File: Evers labeled "Integration Agitator" by Sov. Comm. Spy
Lots more under three separate batches of files ... all equally disgusting.
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