History > USA > Civil rights > Medgar Evers   1925-1963

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Medgar Evers’ funeral, Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.

Medgar, a member of the NAACP, had been shot dead.

His widow, Myrlie, comforts their son.

The image appeared on the cover of Life

— ‘I took pride in that,’ says Loengard.

Photograph: John Loengard

The Guardian

Weekend

p. 48

19 November 2005

Tales of the unexpected

Whether he is photographing major stars

or children in a park,

John Loengard always captures

something unpredictable in an image.

It's a technique with a powerful result.

He talks to Alexander Chancellor

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Saturday November 19, 2005

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photography

LIFE cover 06-28-1963

Son & widow of Medgar Evers attending his funeral

after he was killed by civil rights opponents.

Location: US

Date taken: June 28, 1963

Photographer: John Loengard

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At the funeral for Medgar Evers,

his wife, Myrlie Evers (second right), comforts their son, Darryl Kenyatta Evers,

while daughter Reena Denise Evers (center, in white dress) wipes her own tears

in Jackson, Miss., on June 18, 1963.

Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

60 years ago,

Medgar Evers became a martyr of the Civil Rights Movement

NPR

June 12, 202    35:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/
1180727818/medgar-evers-civil-rights-60-years

Myrlie Evers,

the widow of the civil rights activist Medgar Evers,

who was assassinated by a white supremacist,

at his funeral in 1963.

Photograph: Associated Press

The Journalist and the Murderers

NYT

Feb. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/
books/review/race-against-time-jerry-mitchell.html

Myrlie Evers

after the assassination of her husband, Medgar Evers.

Circa 1963.

Photograph: Robert James Campbell,

via the City of Burlington, Vt.

Photographs as Clues to a Mysterious Bohemian Life

NYT

Feb. 19, 2016

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/
robert-james-campbell-jessica-ferber-rebirth-of-the-cool/
 

William Lowe Waller    1926-2011

as a prosecutor in 1964

he twice tried to convict

the segregationist

Byron De La Beckwith

of murdering

the civil rights leader

Medgar Evers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/
politics/william-l-waller-ex-governor-of-mississippi-dies-at-85.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/
politics/william-l-waller-ex-governor-of-mississippi-dies-at-85.html

Byron De La Beckwith   1920-2001
 

Byron De La Beckwith,

the white supremacist

convicted in 1994 of murdering Medgar Evers.

Photograph: Jeff Guenther

Associated Press

The Journalist and the Murderers

NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/
books/review/race-against-time-jerry-mitchell.html

Mr. Beckwith

was serving a life term

for the 1963 killing

of Medgar Evers,

the Mississippi field secretary

for the National Association

for the Advancement

of Colored People.

The shooting

of Mr. Evers, who was 37,

outside his Jackson home

was one of the most

notorious events

in the violence that marked

the civil rights era.

The victim's wife, Myrlie,

and their three young children

had been watching

President John F. Kennedy

give a televised address

on civil rights on the night

of June 12, 1963.

Mr. Evers was at a meeting

of civil rights workers

at a nearby church.

Moments after Mr. Evers

stepped out of the car,

a sniper hiding in a clump

of honeysuckle vines

shot him with a high-powered

hunting rifle.

Mrs. Evers found

her mortally wounded husband

at the steps by a door to their house,

where he had managed to drag himself

after the bullet struck him in the back

and tore through his chest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/
byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html?ref=medgarevers

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/
byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/08/
opinion/byron-de-la-beckwith-is-guilty.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/17/us/
court-allows-3d-trial-in-63-medgar-evers-slaying.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/19/us/
supremacist-is-charged-for-3d-time-with-killing-medgar-evers-in-1963.html

Mourners saying farewell

to slain NAACP official Medgar Evers at his funeral.

Location: Jackson, MS, US

Date taken: June 1963

Photographer: John Loengard

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Title:

Medgar Evers memorial march in Los Angeles (Calif.)

Memorial March--Negroes and white join in procession

along Avalon Blvd. in memory of Medgar Evers,

slain Mississippi civil rights leader.

Demonstration was sponsored here by NAACP officials

Creator/Contributor: Los Angeles Times (Firm), Publisher

Date: June 17, 1963

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 Less than three months

after this photo was taken in March of 1963,

Medgar Evers was assassinated.

It is believed

to be the only New York Times staff photo of him.

Photograph: Claude Sitton

The New York Times

In Covering Civil Rights,

Reporter Enhanced His Words With Film

NYT

FEB. 4, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/
us/unpublished-black-history-claude-sitton-civil-rights.html

James Baldwin and Medgar Evers

read a newspaper together in Mississippi,

1963.

Photograph: Steve Schapiro

Corbis/Getty Images

The celebrated writer moved between many worlds,

becoming close friends with major figures

— from Marlon Brando to Toni Morrison —

in art, activism and beyond.

NYT

Dec. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html

Medgar Wiley Evers    1925-1963

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
medgar-evers

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/
evers-medgar-wiley

https://guides.loc.gov/
african-american-activists-pictures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Medgar_Evers

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/
opinion/martin-luther-king-medgar-evers.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/12/
1180727818/medgar-evers-civil-rights-60-years

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/nov/01/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/
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https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/05/
513144736/did-i-get-james-baldwin-wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
the-morning-after-medgar-evers-is-killed

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/us/
civil-rights-sins-curated-by-one-of-the-sinners.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/12/
190998770/50-years-later-medgar-evers-widow-relives-the-pain

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=190993436 - June 12, 2013

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190743651/bob-dylans-tribute-to-medgar-evers-
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