Medgar Evers was the NAACP's first field secretary to the South. He lived under constant threat of death for his community organizing work, and had his life taken in June of 1963. NPR just broadcast a story on the 50th anniversary of his death: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/06/05/188727790/fifty-years-after-medgar-evers-killing-the-scars-remain

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