Word: medgar
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...accused of misusing funds and doing nothing to stop sexual harassment of some employees. Chavis was fired last August amid charges that he used NAACP money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit. The chief rival for Gibson's job is Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The organization's 64-member board is slated to elect an executive director tomorrow. While the ousting of Gibson seemed certain a few weeks ago, sources tell White the "count is very close...
...televised speech he delivered shortly before he was killed in cold blood in the summer of 1963, Medgar Evers boldly declared that "history has reached a turning point, here and over the world." His words, originally intended as commentary on the plight of the civil rights movement, might serve as a profound epitaph for two crucial events of last week--the conviction of Evers' murderer Byron de la Beckwith by a Mississippi jury and the decision by the Clinton administration to normalize relations with Vietnam...
Twenty-six years since the Tet offensive and 31 since the murder of Medgar Evers, bygones have finally become bygones--at least in the consciousness of America. But at our prestigious university, bygones still masquerade as contemporary issues...
Shortly after midnight on a balmy June night, she said, she and the Evers' three young children, who had waited up after listening to President Kennedy give a speech on civil rights, heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please...
...said. "I can't find the words right now about what my feelings were. I simply can't. It was terribly emotional. I felt ill. I actually felt physically ill And determined -- determined to see this thing through I'm going the last mile of the way with Medgar, and that's what it's all about...