Medgar Evers: African American Civil Rights Activist

Revolution, “a sudden, complete or marked change in something” (Dictionary.com). The Civil Rights Movement sparked a reaction in the country. The idea of allowing African Americans full rights and privileges left white Americans to brutalize and discriminate. “In 1954, Medgar Evers became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.” He was a civil rights activist that “fought to end the racial injustice he experienced growing up in the South.”(Biography.com). He was later murdered by a member of the KKK, but died in the fight for freedom. It takes people to believe, to follow, and to start a revolution.

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born Michael Luther King Jr. he was the second child of Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr and Alberta Williams King. Growing up, he attended Booker T. Washington High School. He skipped the ninth and the twelfth grade. He went to Morehouse College at the age of 15 without graduating from high school. Later, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. He became a minister at the age of 18. He was ordained in his father’s church. He later married Coretta Scott and they had two sons and two daughters. Martin Luther king lived a rough journey.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He was assassinated in April 1968, and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational African-American leaders in history.

Jackie Robinson. "Jackie Robinson Appears Before HUAC" Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups–Part 1, Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty First Congress, First Session. 18 July. 1949.

In 1850 he and his family moved to Wisconsin where he lived for 5 years until his mother died. He moved with his father back to Freeport. While he was a young man he got $1,000 of inheritance money from his Grandfather and went to Michigan in an attempt to join the University of Michigan.

Adams was born on June 16th, 1939 in Casper, Wyoming. He attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, and graduated from Colorado State University in 1962. He joined the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Missouri. He began his tour in Vietnam on July 6, 1970.

Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925. He was born in Decatur, Mississippi. He grew up in a farming family and he walked 12 miles to earn his high school diploma. A quotes from Medgar Evers, "I graduated pretty quickly. When I was eleven or twelve a close friend of the family got lynched. I guess he was about forty years old, married, and we used to play with his kids. I remember the Saturday night a bunch of white men beat him to death at the Decatur fairgrounds because he sassed back a white woman. They just left him dead on the ground. Everyone

He attended the University of California (first to earn varsity letters in 4 sports) however due to financial needs he did not earn his degree.

According to my book Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born and grew in the small town of Stamford, Connecticut. Jackie was one of the five children in his family. Later in life, Jackie attended UCLA; he was great at baseball football and track and field. After college, in 1942 Jackie Robinson entered the army. He was later promoted to lieutenant and later he received an honorable discharge from the army. (www.brittanica.com)

He was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919. He left and moved to Pasadena, Carolina.

Medgar Evers was birthed on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi to James Evers (father) and Jesse Evers (mother). He would become the first state field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. Medgar ever was assassinated outside his home in 1963,

When I joined the NAACP, I never could have imagined Thurgood Marshall, the head Special Counsel ("Thurgood Marshall"), would bring me into the biggest case of my career. In my times at Northeastern University Law School, I had written countless papers on the Supreme Court decisions preceding Brown v. Board of Education; and now I would be collaborating with the greatest attorneys the NAACP had to offer.

Born in Mitchell County in 1916, Smith attended Middle Georgia College and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he graduated from the University

Revolution “a sudden, complete or marked change in something”(Dictionary.com). The Civil Rights Movement sparked a reaction in the country. The idea of allowing African Americans full rights and privileges left white Americans to brutality and discrimination. “In 1954, Medgar Evers became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.” He was a civil rights activist, that “fought to end the racial injustice he experienced growing up in the South.”(Biography.com). He was later murdered by a member of the KKK, but died in the fight for freedom. It takes people to believe, to follow, to start a revolution.

Amelia Boynton, a civil rights activist, was born on August 18, 1911 in Savannah, Georgia. Boynton attended college at Georgia State College and transferred to the Tuskegee Institute. In 1964, she became the first African-American woman and the first female Democratic candidate to run for Congress. Even though she didn't win, she won 10 percent of the votes. Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she wanted to secure suffrage for African Americans, so she asked Dr. King, and the SCLC to set up their headquarters at Selma. They planned the Selma to Montgomery March, also known as "Bloody Sunday", together. "Bloody Sunday" opened President Lyndon B. Johnson’s eyes and caused him to sign the Voting Acts Right on August 6, 1965. After suffering a stroke,