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Medgar Evers - The Man Who Documented Mississippi's Reign of Terror

Medgar Evers - The Man Who Documented Mississippi's Reign of Terror

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 Host Raven Thorne examines Medgar Evers' life as Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary from 1954-1963. The episode covers his documentation of racial violence, investigation of murders including Emmett Till's case, voter registration campaigns, and organizational work across the Delta, before his 1963 assassination in Jackson launched a decades-long fight for justice.

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