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Fifty years ago today, a coward killed a hero. As he got out of his car after returning home from an NAACP meeting, Medgar Evers was shot in the back. He had done nothing to provoke or warrant this heinous attack. Nothing that is, except fight passionately for desegregation and fair voting rights in Jackson, Mississippi — at the time, one of the most virulently racist cities in the deep south. Sent by NAACP
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:10:46 +0000

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