Jun 20, 2023President Kennedy Meets Medgar Evers’ Family at White HouseJune 20, 1963 - The family of the slain integration leader, Medgar Evers, met President Kennedy at the White House today. Secretary of...
Jun 15, 2023Roy Wilkins Delivers Eulogy at Medgar Evers’ FuneralJune 15, 1963 - Southern politicians were accused in Jackson, Miss., today of responsibility in the death of Medgar Evers, a Negro...
Jun 12, 2023President “Appalled by Barbarity” of Evers SlayingJune 12, 1963 - President Kennedy, “appalled by the barbarity” of the assassination of a top NAACP integration leader in Jackson, Miss....
Jun 12, 2023Evers Had Premonition of DeathJune 12, 1963 - Medgar Evers, a native of Decatur, Miss., and an Army veteran of World War II who was murdered this morning, left a mass...