“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.”

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...