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Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
The Academic Complex Building of Medgar Evers College. The college is presently located in four buildings: 1150 Carroll Street, a four-story 152,000 square feet (14,100 m 2) gross building originally built as the Brooklyn Preparatory School in 1908; 1650 Bedford Avenue, a three-story 130,000 square feet (12,000 m 2) gross building completed in 1988; and The School of Business and Student ...
Medgar Evers Historic District is a U.S. historic district and residential neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. The neighborhood contains the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument , the former home of African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925–1963).
Nicolescu worked as the chief of technical services and deputy chief librarian at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, going on to serve as the registrar for the college, and in 1985 she was selected as chief librarian and chair of the college's Library and Information Division. [2]
The bullet passed through the house's picture window, and through the wall between the living room and kitchen before coming to rest. Evers died early the next morning. [4] Myrlie Evers moved to California in 1964, continuing the civil rights crusade. She maintained ownership of the house for thirty years, using it as a rental property.
The Civil Rights Library and Archives are a part of Tougaloo College. Among their holdings are the original papers, photographs and memorabilia of movement leaders including Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. It contains the works of blues musician B.B. King. The college established the Medgar Evers Museum in 1996.
Patricia A. Pierce Ramsey is an American biologist and academic administrator serving as the sixth president of Medgar Evers College since 2021. Life
Civil rights organizer Medgar Evers considered Mississippi to be "too racist and violent" to conduct lunch counter sit-ins. In 1961 he chose the public library in Jackson as a segregation protest site because it was supported by both black and white taxpayers, rather than being a private business. He recruited nine students from [[Tougaloo ...