Today in Labor History February 5, 1994: A jury convicted Byron De La Beckwork of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers, only 31 years after the fact. Edgars fought to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end segregation of public facilities, and expand voting rights for African Americans He was the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi. He was also a decorated US Army veteran who served in World War II.
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If anyone is looking for a good biography, I’ve really been enjoying “Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America” by Joy-Ann Reid.
It has a conversational writing style that works well with the stories about Medgar and Myrlie’s life before and during the civil rights era in the U.S. There’s so much about them I never learned in school.
#MedgarEvers' s widow speaks to #JoyReid
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=jjOhGlhAIck
From the archives | Humanitarian pioneer #MedgarEvers was assassinated in the driveway of his home #OnThisDay in 1963; however, the civil rights icon went to enormous lengths to ensure that his family was safe:
https://www.truthorfiction.com/is-this-the-bedroom-of-medgar-evers-sons/
60 years ago, #MedgarEvers became a martyr of the Civil Rights Movement https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/1180727818/medgar-evers-civil-rights-60-years
Sixty years ago today. We must remember his legacy and keep fighting for Black people and accountability and a society that is no longer an anti-Black person society. #MedgarEvers #BlackMastodon #Mastodon
