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Medgar Evers: Life, Death, Legacy

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"Medgar Evers was born near Decater, Mississippi in 1925, and lived there until he was inducted into the Army in 1943. He married in 1951, and he and his wife Myrlie helped to establish local chapters of the NAACP throughout the Mississippi Delta." -everstribute.org

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