Word: medgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luther King's voter-registration drive, and heard King's aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, declare: "Jimmie Jackson has taken his rightful place alongside such men as Crispus Attucks [a Negro shot to death by redcoats in the Boston Massacre], Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Brown, Medgar Evers...
...continues unchecked. Some examples since 1961: Herbert Lee and Louis Allen, both shot to death near Liberty, Mississippi; four girls, killed in the Birmingham church bombing; Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot by police after the Birmingham bombings; William L. Moore, the white postman murdered near Attala, Alabama; Medgar Evers, assassinated in Mississippi; James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, lynched near Philadelphia, Mississippi; Lemuel A. Penn, the educator slain near Athens, Georgia; the Negro burned to death in Louisiana last fall; the two multilated bodies found in the Mississippi River last summer; the man recently shot to death...
Apparently, the ad had a salutary effect. The day after it appeared, 20 Negroes led by Charles Evers, brother of murdered Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, turned up at a segregated theater and several restaurants and motels...
Imagery runs to bats as a hovering menace, and angry thunderheads. A repeated gesture shows man against himself, his arms raised threateningly over his own head. But Osborn's most powerful image is also the simplest. In his Homage to Medgar Evers, the Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. leader shot in the back, a human figure is recognizable in a miasma of charcoal only because one fiery tracer plunges down a pathway of death and blows out his life...
...staff. While he now spends most of his time on stories of government and politics that do not turn on the question of race, his particular insight has made him an invaluable observer at many of the crisis points in the civil rights revolution. "I was with Medgar Evers the night before he was killed," Terry recalls. "My room at a motel in Birmingham was bombed hours after I checked out of it. I was locked up with reporters and photographers in the Danville, Va., city hall when police flushed demonstrators down off the steps. But at no time...