Remembering Medger Evers

On this day in 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was gunned down in his driveway just hours after President John F. Kennedy's nationally televised speech supporting civil rights.  He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, where he received full military honors before a crowd of more than 3,000 onlookers.  

For more information about Medgar Evers, try the following resources:

• 7 Things You Should Know about Medger Evers (History Channel)
• Fifty Years After Medgar Evers' Killing, The Scars Remain (NPR)
• Fifty Years of Remembering Medgar Evers, His Widow Reflects (NPR)
• Medgar Evers' Murder: 50 Years Later (ABC News)
• Medger Evers Murdered in Mississippi (Zinn Education Project)
• Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute

All of my posts on Civil Rights can be found here.