Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (2 Juli 1925 – 12 Juni 1963) adalah seorang aktivis hak sipil Amerika Serikat di Mississippi dan veteran Perang Dunia II yang bertugas dalam Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat. Ia memperjuangkan penghapusan pemisahan ras di Universitas Mississippi, mengakhiri pemisahan ras pada fasilitas-fasilitas publik, dan memperluas kesempatan bagi Afrika Amerika, yang meliputi pemberlakuan hak pemungutan suara.
| Medgar Evers | |
|---|---|
 Evers pada 1961 | |
| Lahir | Medgar Wiley Evers 2 Juli 1925 Decatur, Mississippi, Amerika Serikat |
| Meninggal | 12 Juni 1963 (umur 37) Jackson, Mississippi, Amerika Serikat |
| Sebab meninggal | Pembunuhan yang dimotivasikan oleh politik |
| Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
| Pendidikan | Alcorn State University |
| Pekerjaan | Aktivis hak sipil |
| Suami/istri | (kematiannya) |
| Anak | 3 |
| Orang tua | James Evers (ayah) Jesse Wright (ibu)[1] |
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- Gwin, Minrose (2013). Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820335636.
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Medgar Evers.
- SNCC Digital Gateway: Medgar Evers, Documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-out
- JFK First Draft Condolence Letter to Medgar Evers’ Widow, June 12, 1963 Diarsipkan 2022-05-20 di Wayback Machine. Shapell Manuscript Foundation
- Audio recording of T. R. M. Howard's eulogy at the memorial service for Medgar Evers, June 15, 1963, Jackson, Mississippi.
- Myrlie Evers (28 June 1963). 'He said he wouldn't mind dying - if ... '. LIFE. hlm. 34–47.
- Medgar Evers in the U.S. Federal Census American Civil Rights Pioneers
- Medgar Evers biography at africawithin.com
- Medgar Evers di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- imbd.com Diarsipkan 2016-05-04 di Wayback Machine.
- FBI article: Civil Rights in the ‘60s: Justice for Medgar Evers
- Medgar Evers's FBI file hosted at the Internet Archive
- Medgar Evers Fund Collected Records held at Swarthmore College Peace Collection