Word: medgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SING (Elektra) and perhaps more is sung by Songwriter Phil Ochs, who moves in the same circles as Bob Dylan and, like him, is a disciple of Woody Guthrie. Only 23, Ochs has put to music most of yesterday's headlines: Too Many Martyrs (about Medgar Evers), Talking Cuban Crisis and even the Automation Song. The songs most likely to last are poetic if heavy protests like Knock on the Door, an indictment of Soviet terror, and Lou Marsh, a ballad about a social worker murdered in Spanish Harlem...
...death" [July 3] must have been welcomed in the South, If the three young men had chosen to spend a less dedicated, more relaxed summer, if Postman William Moore had stayed off the highways, if the Negro girls had slept late and not attended their Birmingham church, and if Medgar Evers had never joined the N.A.A.C.P., there would still be violence and death in the South. There always has been...
...vibrant lilt, she toyed with her audience for nearly an hour. She sang with them until they caught her playful spirit, then to them, then about them. She laughed with them at the cleverness of an Illinois coffeehouse, called Know Where, cried with them at the tragic death of Medgar Evers, cajoled them with a traditional devil song, caught them with a hammering message of the modern devil. "Masters...
Despite its high purpose, the Negro revolution breeds violence and death. Among its victims have been Baltimore Postman William Moore, shot on an Alabama highway while on a one-man civil rights march; Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back by a bushwhacker; and those four Negro girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham church...
...then, into this atmosphere of calm, cool and collected reasoning, came word of the three missing civil rights workers in Mississippi. And in that instant the whole tone of the N.A.A.C.P. convention changed. Charles Evers, brother of Mississippi's assassinated N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, passionately demanded that the delegates stage a protest march on the Department of Justice. "Let's go," cried the delegates, and only with difficulty did their national leaders dissuade them from marching instantly...