Word: medgar
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Medgar W. Evers, a Negro integrationist leader in Mississippi, was assassinated near his Jackson home yesterday morning. "The fight is here," Evers had said when offered a job at the NAACP headquarters in New York City. "I expect to be shot. I might die. But that's the risk." His slaying is the most barbaric act in the ugly story of race relations this decade...