Medgar Evers was a pioneering civil rights activist, NAACP field officer, and distinguished WWII veteran. Targeted for his civil rights work, Evers was shot and killed in his own driveway in 1963 - today is the anniversary of his tragic death. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in front of a crowd of 3,000. In 1964, two all-white juries allowed the murderer, Byron De La Beckwith, to go free. Beckwith was finally convicted in 1994, a full thirty years after the murder. From America in

On Friday, Medgar Evers was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his unwavering commitment to justice and equity in the fight for civil rights. In his short but impactful lifetime, Medgar served as the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi and courageously stood up to racism in the deeply segregated South. He vehemently opposed the harsh Jim Crow laws, campaigned against educational segregation, and launched an investigation into the lynching of Emmett Till. Medgar lef