The Evers family in Mississippi
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Medgar Evers with his wife Myrlie, his son Darrell, and his daughter Reena. Evers’ third child, James, was born in 1960. ID: A black and white family portrait showing a Black woman wearing a striped dress with a small Black girl in a white dress seated on her lap. A Black boy wearing black pants and suspenders over a white shirt ins seated in the middle with a Black man, smiling slightly, wearing a gray suit with a diamond-patterned tie seated on the right.
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Medgar Evers – Soldier and Civil Rights Activist
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."
~Medgar Evers or Myrlie Evers, widow of Medgar Evers, 1963 Born into a working-class Black family in Decatur, Mississippi, Medgar Evers attended segregated schools and witnessed a…