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Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963

Biography:

"American black civil-rights activist, whose murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the cause of the civil rights movement."--"Evers, Medgar." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 18 Feb. 2008 .

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Civil Rights Archive (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
• Civil Rights History Project (Library of Congress)
  • Amos C. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Francisco, California, 2013-03-02 (Oral histories (literary works))
  • Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Washington, D.C., 2011-09-20 (Oral histories (literary works))
  • Walter Bruce oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Durant, Mississippi, 2013-03-11 (Oral histories (literary works))
• Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine (Proctor Library)
  • Al Lingo : Video Interview (Interviews)
  • Four Youths Shot, Jailed in Oldest 'American' Town (Articles)
  • Racial and Civil Disorders in St. Augustine : Report of the Legislative Investigation Committee : Appendix 01 (Articles)
• Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project (Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections)
  • NAACP parade for Medgar Evers, June 24, 1963 (StillImage)
• FBI Freedom of Information Act Collection (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
  • Medgar Evers (Federal government records)
• Florida Civil Rights Oral Histories (University of South Florida Libraries)
  • Dr. Robert W. Saunders, Sr. / interviewed by Canter Brown (Transcripts)
• Isaiah DeQuincey Newman, (1911-1985), Papers, 1929-2003 (University of South Carolina)
  • Annual Report, December 7, 1961, South Carolina Conference of Branches, NAACP (Text)
  • Monthly Report, May 3 - June 9, 1964, South Carolina State Conference of the National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People (Text)
  • Monthly Report of Field Secretary, June 10 - July 8, 1964, South Carolina Conference of Branches, NAACP (Text)
  • Sermon, c. 1983, based on Luke 16:5 (Text)
  • Speech, November 10, 1963, On the struggle for civil rights (Text)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Charles Evers (Articles)
• Southern school news (University of Georgia Libraries)
  • Southern school news (Periodicals)
• Voices of Civil Rights (Library of Congress)
  • Rev. R.L.T. Smith, near top at right, addresses crowd in New York at a memorial service for Medgar Evers (Black-and-white photographs)
• Who Speaks for the Negro? (Jean and Alexander Heard Library)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • Medgar Evers Funeral; Evers Buried in Washington, D.C. (No Date) (moving images)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. responding to a reporter's question about president John F. Kennedy's speech on civil rights and the murder of Medgar Evers, Atlanta, Georgia, 1963 June 12 (Moving images)