Jun 12, 2019
4 min read
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY
Two Powerful Songs in Response to the Murder of Medgar Evers
“A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers’ blood” — Bob Dylan
On this day in history civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated. Born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi he became, in 1954, the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized…
