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Honoring Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers
Author: PBS NewsHour
Narrator: PBS NewsHour
Unabridged: 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Published: 06/05/2013
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines - Journalism
Synopsis
Nearly half a century after his murder, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was honored in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Gwen Ifill examines the life and legacy of Evers -- a World War II veteran and the NAACP's first field secretary in the South -- with Jerry Mitchell of Jackson, Mississippi's The Clarion-Ledger newspaper.