BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 2nd July, 1925, Medgar Evers, an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi, who worked day and night to overturn the prevalent racial segregation at the University of Mississippi was born in Decatur, Mississippi. Medgar was the third child among five children, including his famous elder brother- Charles Evers of Jesse (Wright), and James Evers. The […]
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