Medgar Evers didn't get a chance to grow old and raise cattle, but his friend Y.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Forty years ago this week, Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down outside his home in Jackson.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

Charles Evers, brother of the late civil rights leader Medgar Evers, said Wellstone doesn't have to come to Mississippi to find poor people.

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It's part of Medgar Evers' legacy paid for in blood and stamped on the lives of Mississippians, from the state capital in Jackson to the cornfields of Newton County where Medgar Evers grew up.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers

It's now called Medgar Evers Drive.

NPR: The Legacy of Medgar Evers