On June 12 1963 civil rights organizer Medgar Evers was shot in his driveway in Miss. and died in front of his wife and children. Evers was among those black army veterans who returned from the war in Europe and found it intolerable to return home to insults and oppression.
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With the NAACP he organized boycotts and registered voters. As a result he faced daily death threats. “As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children I’m going to work for it—even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.”