Photobooth portrait of Medgar Evers

ID: 87 ~ Source: Archives and Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives and History ~ Creator: Evers Family ~ Date: ca. 1950s
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ID: Black and white portrait of Medgar Evers, a young, smiling, clean-shaven Black man with a deeply lined face. He is wearing a gray suit with a striped tie and is standing in front of a curtain.

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"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…