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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 in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Letter, Ray E. Robinson to Negro Christians; June 16, 1963 (Sermons)
  • Memorial flyer (Medgar Evers) with quote from 1 John 4:20; [n.d.] (Images (object genres))
  • News release, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; December 10, 1964 (Text)
• Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project (Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections)
  • NAACP parade for Medgar Evers, June 24, 1963 (Image)
• 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)
• Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001 (University of Mississippi Libraries)
  • Oral history interview with Frankye Adams-Johnson, 2001 (Oral histories)
  • Oral history interview with Fred Clark, 2001 (Oral histories)
  • Oral history interview with Krendell Petway Dendy and Reverend Alfonso K. Petway, 2001 (Oral histories)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Charles Evers (Articles)
• USM Oral History (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Interview with honorable Charles Evers : mayor of Fayette, Mississippi (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Miss Iva E. Sandifer (Oral histories)
  • Oral history with Mr. Claude Ramsay, president: Mississippi AFL-CIO (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. James Cohen (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Wilson Evans II (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Ms. Winson Hudson (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Reverend Sammie Rash (Transcripts)
• Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Educator Resources

• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • and Joshua commanded the people to shout-- and the people shouted with a great shout and the walls fell down flat-- and they took the city; [1964] (Instructional materials)