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Medgar Evers
born 1925
Decatur, Mississippi
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Born in Decatur, walked twelve miles to school, came home from the Normandy campaign to be turned away from voting at gunpoint, and became Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary. He was shot in his own driveway in Jackson in 1963. His killer was convicted thirty-one years later.
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