On this day in 1963, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
by Debbie Skipper and Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 12, 2023 JUNE 12, 1963 Hours after President John Kennedy told the nation that the grandchildren of those enslaved are “not yet freed from the bonds of injustice,” NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, and protests followed, including a march of 5,000 people with Martin Luther King Jr., after his funeral.
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