On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Wiley Evers, a 37-year-old male civil rights activist, returned to his home in Jackson, Mississippi. An African American World War II veteran and the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, he had spent the evening at a community meeting. As he got out of his car, carrying T-shirts that read 'Jim Crow Must Go,' a single shot from a high-powered rifle struck him in the back. The bullet passed through his body, and he staggered to his front door before co
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