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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
19.11.2005
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
G
Saturday November 19,
2005
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/nov/19/
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
Life Images
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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
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/
books/review/race-against-time-jerry-mitchell.html
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
Life Images
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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
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb158003xh/
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic6a.html

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://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/
t-magazine/who-james-baldwin-knew.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/nov/01/
georgia-voter-suppression-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/
books/review/race-against-time-jerry-mitchell.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/us/
unpublished-black-history-claude-sitton-civil-rights.html
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
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/12/
190998770/50-years-later-medgar-evers-widow-relives-the-pain
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/
paying-tribute-to-a-seeker-of-justice-50-years-after-his-assassination.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/06/05/
188727790/fifty-years-after-medgar-evers-killing-the-scars-remain
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/12/
190743651/bob-dylans-tribute-to-medgar-evers-took-on-the-big-picture
https://www.pbs.org/video/
honoring-civil-rights-hero-medgar-evers-warrior-for-u-s-1377723922/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/
politics/william-l-waller-ex-governor-of-mississippi-dies-at-85.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/
byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Medgar%20Evers
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/18/guardianobituaries.usa
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http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/17/us/
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