mprovcash11 years ago 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 Reply You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Your name Comment About text formats Plain text No HTML tags allowed. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
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