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the house where Medgar Evers lived, and in front of which he was assassinated, is a museum. ajc. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Wednesday's Women's Basketball Scores Feb 7, 2008
Brooklyn 75, Medgar Evers 60. Chatham 63, Grove City 56. (International Herald Tribune)
Monday's College Basketball Scores Jan 29, 2008
Ramapo 92, Medgar Evers 75. Sciences, Pa. (International Herald Tribune)
Man held in Jackson's 5th homicide in '08 Jan 27, 2008
Early Friday morning, 31-year-old James Bridgeman Jr. was shot and killed by at least one security guard at the Block To Block Lounge on Medgar Evers Boulevard. Police say Bridgeman got into an argument about parking with the club's private security, left the club and came back with an assault rifle and a bullet-resistant vest. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Man shot dead by nightclub security Jan 26, 2008
The shooting occurred shortly after 3 a.m. outside the Block To Block Lounge on Medgar Evers Boulevard at West Ridgeway Street, according to a statement released Friday afternoon by the Jackson Police Department. Investigators say 31-year-old James Bridgeman Jr. of Jackson got into an argument over parking with security guards at the club. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Man dead after shooting at Jackson club Jan 25, 2008
James Bridgeman Jr. argued with someone in the parking lot at the Block to Block club on Medgar Evers and Rutledge Avenue, according to witnesses. Bridgeman left the club and returned with an assault rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest, witnesses said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Evers-Williams urges locals to keep King's legacy alive Jan 23, 2008
This was the message Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, delivered at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemorative event Monday night at Mississippi University for Women's Rent Auditorium ... It was here that her first husband, Medgar Evers, met community leader Dr. E.J. Stringer to discuss Evers' involvement with the Mississippi NAACP. Evers took the position of the first National Association for the Advancement of Colored People field secretary in... (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Remembering Martin and Medgar (1/21) Jan 22, 2008
Evers-Williams is the widow of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, who as NAACP field secretary was gunned down in the driveway of their Jackson home in 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith. Finally, in 1994, De La Beckwith was brought to justice. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
A good evening to honor Langella Jan 20, 2008
For three years, Gianvito, who teaches visual and media studies at Emerson College, filmed monuments to American radicals including Sojourner Truth, Medgar Evers, and Susan B. Anthony and movements including the Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence. "There are no interviews, no voice-over," wrote Mark Feeney in a Globe review last November. (Boston Globe)
Medgar Evers' widow to hold book signing Jan 18, 2008
Medgar Evers' widow to hold book signing ... Organizers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Celebration announced Wednesday Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader Medgar Evers' widow, will have a book signing at Wal-Mart, located at 913 Highway 45 N. in Columbus, on Monday ... Evers-Williams will be at Wal-Mart from 10:30-11 a.m. signing her books Watch Me Fly and The Autobiography of Medgar Evers by Myrlie Evers-Williams; Wal-Mart carries the books. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Who Cares: Making a dream come true is overdue Jan 16, 2008
King s I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963 came just two months after Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers was shot and killed outside his Mississippi home. Two weeks after King spoke, four black girls were killed when a bomb, planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in a Birmingham, Ala. (Harwich Oracle, MA)
Locals inspired by MLK Jan 13, 2008
The present of the African-American community, Jordan said, isn't what King and fellow slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers were fighting for. He's heartbroken and perplexed by deterioration in some parts of the community. (Freeport Journal-Standard, IL)
NCAA pioneer Frank worthy of praise Jan 11, 2008
College, a tour of duty as dean of students and vice-president for academic affairs at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y.. "At every stop, Dr. Frank was a catalyst for important and positive change," said Brand, who was in New Orleans for the BCS championship game between LSU and Ohio State. (Nola.com -- Sports)
What Jackie Did Next Jan 8, 2008
That year, Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, and a church bombing killed four girls in Birmingham. Then in October, Adlai Stevenson was mobbed by anti-UN demonstrators in Dallas and hit on the head with a placard. (The American Conservative)
Mississippi briefs Dec 31, 2007
The Medgar Evers Community Center will host the last two days of this year's Kwanzaa celebration. Today, Kuumba will be observed with presentations by the Study Africa Group and the Mwana Illi Mumgu Dance Troop. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Holiday closings Dec 29, 2007
Libraries in the Jackson/Hinds Library System will be closed Monday and Tuesday, and reopen on Wednesday: Fannie Lou Hamer Library, Margaret Walker Alexander Library, Willie Morris Library, Eudora Welty Library, Medgar Evers Library, Northside LIbrary and Richard Wright Library, R.G.Bolden/Anna Bell-Moore Library, all in Jackson; Evelyn Taylor Majure Library, Utica; Ella Bess Austin Library, Terry; Raymond Library, Raymond; Lois A. Flagg Library, Edwards; A.E. Wood Library, Clinton; Beverly J.... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Christmas closings Dec 25, 2007
Medgar Evers Library, Jackson. Northside LIbrary, Jackson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Saturday's Women's College Basketball Scores Dec 23, 2007
St. Joseph's, N.Y. 56, Medgar Evers 48. St. Rose 71, Adelphi 59. (International Herald Tribune)
Mississippi-based group out to protect Jena from ‘invaders' Dec 22, 2007
More recently, he rallied in support of Byron de la Beckwith, the white supremacist who was convicted in 1994 of murdering Medgar Evers. Barrett and his followers now want to re-segregate the University of Mississippi, calling on recently hired football coach Houston Nutt to honor the heritage ever notice how Confederate flag wavers always talk about heritage when they see an increasingly integrated world around them. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Services set for civil rights-era 'hero' Dec 11, 2007 Christmas delivery Dec 1, 2007 John Gianvito's ''Profit motive'' is a hushed, hypnotic history Nov 29, 2007 Medgar Evers' widow to headline event Nov 29, 2007 The beat goes on: Miss. Blues Trail marker celebrates Trumpet Records Nov 16, 2007 Arthur Bremer, Who Shot Wallace, Is Freed Nov 10, 2007 Southwick: Judge judged by region's history Oct 25, 2007 Mitchell captivates audience at Potomac State College Oct 25, 2007 Much-honored reporter set to speak at WVU-Parkersburg Oct 23, 2007 Mitchell to speak at Potomac State tonight Oct 23, 2007 Nas Denies Reports That Def Jam Nixing N-Word Album... Oct 20, 2007 Civil Rights photographer Ernest Withers dies Oct 19, 2007 Nas Explains Controversial Album Title, Denies Reports Of Label Opposition Oct 19, 2007 Ernest C. Withers, 85; photographer documented modern U.S. black history Oct 18, 2007 Ernest C. Withers, 85, civil rights photographer Oct 17, 2007 THIRTY SOMETHING NOTEBOOK: Learning from elders' wisdom Oct 14, 2007 Brooklyn today Oct 8, 2007 Nobody knows the lynchings he's seen Oct 7, 2007 Accidents, deaths rise on bypass Sep 28, 2007 Racism in America: Alive and well in 2007 Sep 27, 2007 Stop the 'Jena-cide' in America Sep 22, 2007 Remember Mississippi's brush with terrorism 40 years ago? Sep 21, 2007 'The struggle continues' - Jackson inspires change, action at SCSU with voter tour Sep 19, 2007 All you have to do is call: Friendship stands the test of time Sep 16, 2007 Man gunned down Sep 15, 2007 Wallace Ford Appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of GoodWorks International, LLC Sep 11, 2007 Libraries after returns: Tardy borrowers may avoid fines Sep 4, 2007 Freedom Trail Sep 3, 2007 Walk along St. Augustine's Freedom Trail Aug 28, 2007 Civil rights era killer sentenced to three life terms Aug 25, 2007 3 life terms for Seale Aug 25, 2007 Reputed Klansman gets 3 life terms for '64 murders Aug 25, 2007 Ex-Klansman Gets Three Life Terms in 1964 Murders of Two Black Teenagers Aug 25, 2007 Traffic Alert: Accident reported at I-220 and Medgar Evers Blvd. Aug 6, 2007 Lynching re-enacted in search for justice Jul 27, 2007 Illini Announces 2007-08 Track and Field Recruiting Class Jul 20, 2007 Obituaries in the News Jul 9, 2007 Different airport names confuses visitors Jul 5, 2007 Voting: Racism, discrimination wrong in all hues Jul 4, 2007 LEONARD PITTS JR.: Doing something right to rile neo-Nutsies Jul 2, 2007 Cold case funding bill clears House Jun 21, 2007 Miss. eyes civil rights Jun 21, 2007 Civil rights fight is losing time Jun 20, 2007 Guilty on all counts Jun 15, 2007 National push likely to pursue cold cases of civil rights era Jun 15, 2007 Reputed Klansman Seale convicted in '64 killings Jun 15, 2007 Congress Backs Unit to Probe Unsolved Hate Murders Jun 13, 2007 Rights bill advances Jun 13, 2007 Congress pushes to crack unsolved civil rights crimes Jun 13, 2007 Today in History June 12 Jun 12, 2007 Slaves' voyage of despair remembered Jun 10, 2007 * Middle Passage Remembrance Day marked in the US Jun 10, 2007 Hoffmann making sure civil rights era not forgotten Jun 2, 2007 Seale jury pool reduced to 49 Jun 1, 2007 A love of science S. Pike teacher gets presidential award for skills in classroom Jun 1, 2007 Waiting for justiceFBI re-examines civil rights era murders in America's Deep South May 31, 2007 Forgotten Killings: Old cases call for justice May 31, 2007 William Peters, King-era journalist, dies at 85 May 30, 2007 Trial recalls horrors of the Klan May 30, 2007 300 summonses sent to potential jurors in Seale trial May 30, 2007 Civil-rights tours are valuable teaching tool May 28, 2007 William Peters, 85; writer examined U.S. race relations May 27, 2007 Family and friends pay tribute to Yolanda King May 25, 2007 Trial set to begin in Mississippi civil rights-era case May 24, 2007 Worst of Jackson's streets could be repaved soon May 21, 2007
McComb native David Bickham, a grant writer in the office of development at Jackson State University, said Bryant was almost the last of the World War II generation that made up that part of the civil rights movement, including Aaron Henry and Medgar Evers ... In 1986, he received the Medgar Evers Medallion Award. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Cold cases: Solving crimes should be priority Dec 11, 2007
In 1989, a groundswell of support led to the reopening the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers of Jackson, ending with the 1994 conviction of Byron De La Beckwith. Since 1990, authorities in seven states have made 29 arrests leading to 23 convictions. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Margy Keyes helps Robert Williams of Jackson with mailing a package on Thursday at the Medgar Evers Postal Facility. DEADLINES. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The people's names, as they get closer to us in time, shift from history (distant, done, dead) to politics (near, ongoing, ideologically animate): Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer (who has the glorious epitaph "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired"), Dorothy Day, James Baldwin, Cesar Chavez, Philip Berrigan. There are no interviews, no voice-over. (Boston Globe)
Medgar Evers' widow to headline event ... Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, will close out Columbus' annual Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Celebration Monday, Jan. 21, event organizers announced today ... Myrlie Evers-Williams and Medgar Evers are the pioneers for the NAACP chapters in Mississippi, which they fought and suffered for racial equality during the civil rights era. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
"He later recorded with the Blind Boys of Mississippi and cut soul singles for labels including Paula, Wand and Sound Stage 7.In January 1951, Trumpet moved into blues with a single by Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), who was well known to Mississippi blues fans because of his daily radio broadcasts on KFFA out of Helena, Ark. Williamson eventually moved into an apartment at 509 Farish St. in a building that also housed the Big Apple Inn and Medgar Evers' NAACP office.Williamson's Trumpet... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of assassinating the civil rights leader Medgar Evers but not until 1994, 31 years after the crime, because two earlier prosecutions ended in mistrials. Already 74 and ailing when he entered prison, he was sentenced to life and died in custody in 2001. (New York Times)
There, he would have joined Charles Pickering and Michael Wallace, also trashed for the same reasons - never mind that Pickering fought for civil rights and was lauded by Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Said Charles Evers of Pickering: I know his positive record on race relations, civil rights, and equal protection for all. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Mitchell himself was portrayed in the film, about the reopening of a cold case involving the assassination of civil rights worker Medgar Evers. Mitchell's reporting sent Evers away for life. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
In 1996 he was portrayed in the Rob Reiner film Ghosts of Mississippi, about the murder of Medgar Evers and the belated effort to bring killer Bryon De La Beckwith to justice. Mitchell has won more than 20 national awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Public Justice, Heywood Broun Award, Sidney Hillman Awards, American Legions Fourth Estate Award, National Association of Black Journalists Award for Enterprise Reporting, Abraham Lincoln Maroviz Award, and Inland Press Association... (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Mitchell's work so far has helped put 5 Klansmen behind bars, Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers; Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966; and Bobby Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, resulting in the deaths of 4 young girls. Since 1989, the 48-year-old reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
"No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil rights movement, but some ... in the streets don't know who (civil rights activist) Medgar Evers was ... they know who Nas is," the rapper said, referring to the civil rights leader slain in the 1960s. "And to my older people who don't know who Nas is and who don't know what a street disciple is, stay outta this (expletive) conversation. We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement. We're taking power from... (Fox News)
As a freelance photographer for African-American newspapers, Withers traveled with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Medgar Evers and other figures in the Civil Rights Movement. He also photographed the early performances of celebrities like Elvis Presley, B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner. (WREG.com, TN)
"No disrespect to none of them who were part of the civil-rights movement, but some of my n---as in the streets don't know who [civil-rights activist] Medgar Evers was. I love Medgar Evers, but some of the n---as in the streets don't know Medgar Evers, they know who Nas is. And to my older people who don't now who Nas is and who don't know what a street disciple is, stay outta this mutha----in' conversation. We'll talk to you when we're ready. Right now, we're on a whole new movement. We're... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Withers' photos provided records of the funerals of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers, who was killed after working to register voters in 1963, and King, who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has in its permanent collection more than 100 of Withers' black-and-white images. (Los Angeles Times)
He also photographed the funeral of Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist who was killed in 1963, and the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. in 1957. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Medgar Evers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died for attempting to secure basic rights for their African-American brothers and sisters. Some young African-Americans take those rights for granted. (Freeport Journal-Standard, IL)
And just down the street is Medgar Evers College, named for the slain civil-rights figure. Fifty years after the last roar shook Ebbets Field, only faint echoes remain of the Dodgers, the team that played in that storied ballpark for 45 seasons and served as the lifeblood of this borough. (Los Angeles Times)
He still preaches against black self-pity even as he hyperbolically tries to cast his Senate cross-examination by Joe Biden as tantamount to the Ku Klux Klan assassination of Medgar Evers. He still denies that he is the beneficiary of the very race-based preferences he deplores. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
As many as five people were injured Sunday afternoon when a car crossed the median on I-220, south of the Medgar Evers Boulevard exit. Jackson resident Michael Starks drives on I-220 at least twice a day. (The Clarion-Ledger)
But yet in the midst of all of this discussion and debate we are only just now beginning to catch up with the people or persons who murdered Emmett Till and Medgar Evers and those who bombed the church with those beautiful little girls. Some would say, "... But that stuff doesn't happen." Unfortunately for all of us that is not true. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
The truth of the matter is that race relations in America have worsened since the murders of Martin L King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X. Many have po. jpgicated on the reasons why; however, it stands to reason that too many in the body politic and some of those who have benefited from the civil rights advances of the '60s have fallen asleep at the wheel. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Byron De La Beckwith, who would be later convicted in the Medgar Evers assassination, on a tip was nabbed by New Orleans police when he crossed the Lake Pontchartrain bridge with a ticking time bomb, heading to the home of Bee Botnick. Poetically, the tip came from a Jewish informant. (The Clarion-Ledger)
"Learning was an active defiance because learning was illegal. Strong minds bring strong change," said Jackson, who shared the tireless struggles of late African-American pioneers such as abolitionist Frederick Douglass and slain civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers. He told of how he was jailed in 1960 after trying to enter a public library with a group of other students, including some from South Carolina State. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Wright later moved back to Canton and Robinson followed in 1975, trusting her best friend to purchase a three-bedroom home for her in Canton's Medgar Evers subdivision after her husband had died. "She sent me the money," Wright says. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Jackson police crime scene investigator Charles Taylor (left) gathers evidence on Friday after a 1 p.m. homicide on Rutledge Avenue near Medgar Evers Boulevard ... A gun was recovered from a Chevrolet Impala at the scene of a 1 p.m. homicide on Rutledge Avenue near Medgar Evers Boulevard in Jackson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
He has also taught courses at the Metropolitan College of New York, Pace University and the Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York. In addition to serving on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and United Way International, Mr. Ford has written for numerous publications periodicals and lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. (allAfrica.com)
Medgar Evers Boulevard Library at 4215 Medgar Evers Blvd. in Jackson. Northside Library at 807 E. Northside Dr. in Jackson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Dr. King and the Kennedys paid the price, Medgar Evers paid the price. But although he still thinks St. Augustine, Florida and the country can improve the plight of blacks, he is proud of his work. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
"If my life was the price I had to pay, I would pay it. Dr. King and the Kennedys paid the price, Medgar Evers paid the price.". But although he still thinks St. Augustine, Florida and the country can still improve the plight of blacks, he is proud of his work. (MSNBC -- Travel)
It was the 23rd case from the civil rights era that has been prosecuted since 1989, when federal authorities opened the 1963 slaying of Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary, Medgar Evers. The 1964 triple slaying of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner was another of those prosecuted; Edgar Ray Killen was convicted in 2005 of manslaughter in their deaths. (Los Angeles Times)
Seale's June 14 conviction was the 23rd since 1989 for crimes from the civil rights era that have been reprosecuted, when authorities reopened the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers in Jackson. At a news conference Friday following Seale's sentencing, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Wan Kim of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said expectations shouldn't be unrealistically raised in the more than 100 killings the department is examining, but they... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Seale's June 14 conviction was the 23rd since 1989 for crimes from the civil rights era that have been reprosecuted, when authorities reopened the 1963 assassination of state NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers in Jackson. Now Justice Department officials are re-examining dozens of similar killings. (USA Today)
They include successful prosecutions of Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 murder of NAACP official Medgar Evers, and of former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen for killing three volunteers registering black voters in 1964. The investigation into the murder of Moore and Dee, dropped by state authorities more than 40 years ago, was given new life in 2005 when U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton in Jackson created a task force to look into it. (Bloomberg -- US)
Emergency officials are responding to a single-vehicle accident at I-220 and Medgar Evers Blvd. in Jackson. Reports of injuries are not known at this time. (The Clarion-Ledger)
1977: Ex-Klansman Robert Chambliss convicted of 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham, Alabama 1994: Byron de la Beckwith convicted in 1963 sniper murder of Mississippi civil rights activist Medgar Evers 1998: Former Klan leader Samuel Bowers convicted in the death of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., killed in 1966 firebombing of his Mississippi home 2001, 2002: Thomas Blanton Jr. then Bobby Frank Cherry convicted of involvement in 1963 Birmingham church bombing 2003:... (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NCAA Basketball)
Analisa Austin (Middle College at Medgar Evers High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.) Will compete for the Illini in the sprinting events Owns personal best times of 11. 84 seconds in the 100 meters and 24. (Fightingillini.com)
Activist Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, said Tisdale was concerned about the welfare of all citizens, not just blacks. Tisdale often said he was the target of death threats for his outspokenness. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Thompson was the Jackson mayor who helped get the land for the airport and Medgar Evers was the former NAACP field secretary who was killed in 1963 as he worked for integration. So, it's just a matter of some vendors at the airport being slower to change the name. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The pantheon of courageous black political leaders who paved the way for voting rights for all Mississippians includes names like Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Vernon Dahmer and three young men named Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. Ike Brown's name won't appear on that list - because somewhere along the way, Brown forgot the examples of those heroic figures in the civil rights struggle. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Which only deepens my appreciation for the sheer guts it took to be a Fred Shuttlesworth in Birmingham or a Medgar Evers in Jackson, speaking truth to power in a time and place where everyone knew your address, assassinations were common and you could not go to law enforcement because they were part of the problem. I'm not comparing myself to those civil rights icons. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Seale's conviction marked the 30th nationally in a civil rights crime since 1989, when the Hinds County district attorney's office reopened the investigation into the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Second District Rep. (Jackson Clarion Ledger)
Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down outside his Jackson home in 1963. A year later, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County. (USA Today -- News)
And Byron De La Beckwith, who bragged often at Klan rallies about his 1963 murder of Medgar Evers, then head of the Mississippi chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died there as well. It's true that the FBI and Justice Department, through dogged efforts over four decades, have managed to send some white-supremacy terrorists to their deaths in prison. (Newsday -- Opinion)
He was convicted five years later for the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Seale's case was the sixth brought in Mississippi in the past two decades. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The renewed effort to prosecute these old cases began with the resurrection of the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers. "There's one word that embraces it all - perseverance for those that care about the justice system being what it is supposed to be and working relentlessly that these cases are brought to the attention of the public and prosecuted," said his widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, who testified Tuesday. (The Clarion-Ledger)
He was convicted five years later of the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Seale's case was the sixth that's been brought in Mississippi in the past two decades. (USA Today)
On Tuesday, the widows of murdered NAACP field officer Medgar Evers and civil rights worker Michael Schwerner told a House panel that Congress must act quickly to resolve these cases before memories and evidence fade even more. "It would speak not only to the family members and survivors but to the nation as a whole, that these people's lives were not in vain," said Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams. (Fox News)
The hearing took place on the 44th anniversary of the slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was shot in the back in front of his Jackson, Miss ... Medgar Evers' murderer, Byron De La Beckwith, was sentenced to life in prison in Jackson, 30 years after the crime. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Action on the cold case bill occurred on the 44th anniversary of the killing of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers. "There are those who say that civil rights 'cold cases' should remain lost in history, 'no one benefits' and 'the men are old and will die soon, so why bother?'" testified Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams. (USA Today)
In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss. he was 37. (MSNBC -- Race)
We must, we must, honor our ancestors, said Tony Akeem, who has been organizing an observance at Coney Island, N.Y., ever since a 1989 conference on the slaves brutal trip was held at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he works as a photographer. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Race)
The ceremony grew from a 1989 conference at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, where Akeem works as a photographer. Other events have spread to Philadelphia, San Francisco, Brazil and Ghana, Akeem said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
ow, I'm walking on the same ground that Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers walked, he said. m overwhelmed. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
He was 13 or 14 years old, he said, when he met Medgar Evers at a rally the night the NAACP leader was shot in the back in the driveway of his home, calling him "the most courageous person I ever met.". Another potential juror, a middle-aged African-American man, said Seale is innocent until proved guilty. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Most recently, she helped Mississippi Public Broadcasting develop the Medgar Evers Teacher s Guide, which will be available online and distributed to social studies teachers throughout the state. I ve had a lot of good opportunities. (Enterprise-Journal)
" Cold cases Oneal Moore's case is one of a raft of unsolved murders from that era that the FBI is now re-examining, to see whether there is enough evidence to reopen an investigation. RACE HATE KILLINGS Aug 1955: Emmett Till, 14, from Chicago, is murdered and mutilated while on holiday in Money, Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. Two white men were acquitted of murder by an all-white jury. Jun 1963: NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers murdered in Jackson, Mississippi. White... (BBC News -- Americas)
This marks the 29th arrest of a "forgotten" civil rights case since Byron De La Beckwith's in 1990 for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers. Mississippi is the leader in prosecuting these old cases. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Peters, who also wrote a series and book with the widow of the murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was born in San Francisco on July 30, 1921. He left Northwestern University after two years to become a pilot in World War II, writing a piece for the Ladies Home Journal about being shot down and spending many hours at sea before being rescued. (MSNBC -- Race)
It is evident to anyone arriving at the airport at Jackson, now called Jackson-Evers International in recognition of the civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in 1963 ... The reopening of racist murder cases from the 1960s in the South began in 1990 when a white supremacist, Byron La Beckwith, was indicted and eventually jailed for the assassination in 1963 of Medgar Evers, then chairman in Mississippi of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
She said juries in other old racially motivated homicide cases from the 1960s were sequestered, noting all the cases from the 1994 reprosecution of Beckwith in the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers to the 2005 prosecution of Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 slayings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. "The burden of sequestration on the jurors in this case is not great because the presentation of evidence is expected to last less than two weeks," Fitzgerald said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
"Seeing Medgar Evers' house was sobering because we saw how that family had to live back in that time," said Matlock, describing the home where the Mississippi NAACP field secretary was fatally shot. It is in Jackson, the tour's first stop. (Orlando Sentinel -- News)
Peters helped Myrlie Evers, the widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, write her 1967 book, "For Us, the Living," while she and her children lived with the Peters family, Johnson said. Peters' experience in matters of race relations earned him an opportunity to break into broadcasting. (Los Angeles Times)
She's loved and definitely will be missed," Bass said. Used art to further message Yolanda King, the oldest of Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King's four children, died May 15 in Santa Monica, Calif. She had lived in California, most recently Culver City, for more than a decade. A private autopsy was done, but family members say that she died of heart failure. The 51-year-old was known to have an irregular heartbeat. As noted by her cousin Isaac Newton Farris Jr., out of all of the... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Seale's trial marks the sixth civil rights-era case that has been prosecuted in Mississippi since 1990, when a grand jury here indicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, the field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP.. A cascade of prosecutions followed the Beckwith conviction. (USA Today)
City Council to weigh $1. 9 million proposal at Tuesday meeting. (The Clarion-Ledger)
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