On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar W. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 37.
Evers began his involvement with the NAACP in 1952 while working for a Black-owned insurance company in the Mississippi Delta. As the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, he focused on recruiting members and investigating racial violence.
He also spearheaded voter registration efforts and organized mass protests. Evers and his family were frequent targets of white supremacist violence.
He was laid to rest on June 19, 1963, at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., where he was honored with a full military burial attended by over 3,000 mourners.
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