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Alcorn State to dedicate auditorium to Medgar Evers
LORMAN, Miss. (AP)
Alcorn State University will dedicate an auditorium in the JD Boyd Library to the memory of slain civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers.
Evers was a 1952 graduate of Alcorn State.
Alcorn State president Clinton Bristow said the dedication Wednesday and a leadership symposium afterward are an opportunity to honor a nationally recognized alumnus on the 40th anniversary of his death.
The 37-year-old Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP, was shot in the back on June 12th, 1963, while standing in the driveway of his Jackson home.
Byron De La Beckwith was charged with the murder. Two all-white juries deadlocked in trials in 1964. A biracial jury convicted Beckwith in 1994 and he was serving a life sentence at the time of his death in 2001.
Evers entered Alcorn State after serving in World War Two. At school, Evers was a member of the debate team and the college choir. He held student offices and for two years was editor of the campus newspaper.
Evers met Myrlie Beasley of Vicksburg, who became his wife and the mother of their three children.
Myrlie Evers-Williams will attend the dedication and symposium, as will Evers' brother, Charles Evers, who took over as NAACP field secretary in Mississippi in 1963.
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I was going to put this in the Alcorn private forum but I thought that everybody would like to read this since Medgar Evers did work tirelessy for equality for all of us not just the ones that attended Alcorn.
LORMAN, Miss. (AP)
Alcorn State University will dedicate an auditorium in the JD Boyd Library to the memory of slain civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers.
Evers was a 1952 graduate of Alcorn State.
Alcorn State president Clinton Bristow said the dedication Wednesday and a leadership symposium afterward are an opportunity to honor a nationally recognized alumnus on the 40th anniversary of his death.
The 37-year-old Evers, field secretary for the Mississippi NAACP, was shot in the back on June 12th, 1963, while standing in the driveway of his Jackson home.
Byron De La Beckwith was charged with the murder. Two all-white juries deadlocked in trials in 1964. A biracial jury convicted Beckwith in 1994 and he was serving a life sentence at the time of his death in 2001.
Evers entered Alcorn State after serving in World War Two. At school, Evers was a member of the debate team and the college choir. He held student offices and for two years was editor of the campus newspaper.
Evers met Myrlie Beasley of Vicksburg, who became his wife and the mother of their three children.
Myrlie Evers-Williams will attend the dedication and symposium, as will Evers' brother, Charles Evers, who took over as NAACP field secretary in Mississippi in 1963.
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I was going to put this in the Alcorn private forum but I thought that everybody would like to read this since Medgar Evers did work tirelessy for equality for all of us not just the ones that attended Alcorn.
