“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday.”

Medgar Evers

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About Medgar Evers

Activist American

Medgar Evers was a pioneering American civil rights activist in Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation and enact social justice. As the state's first field secretary for the NAACP, he organized...

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