“Let me be clear. I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, and die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.”

About Medgar Evers

Activist • American

Medgar Evers was a pioneering American civil rights activist in Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation and enact social justice. As the state's first field secretary for the NAACP, he organized...