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Medgar Evers

  • Activism
  • Military
  • Civil Rights & Black Power, 1945-1975
A black and white portrait of young Medgar Evers. He has a small mustache and dressed in a dark suit.
In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world.
Freedom has never been free. ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

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