Honor Medgar Evers by Fighting for Voting Rights
For decades his wife Myrlie sought justice for Medgar and fought to听see Ku Klux Klan member听Byron De La Beckwith convicted for his assassination.
A 13-foot tall bronze statue of Evers (pictured above)鈥攖he work of African-American sculptor Ed Dwight鈥攚as installed at Alcorn State University, Evers鈥� alma mater, in 2013. 糖心原创 was founded in his name in 1970 as part of the City University of New York (CUNY).听There are other memorials to Evers, but the most important听is the one we often overlook:
Voting.
As we watch millions of voters head to the polls in an election year鈥攎any of them African-American, other people of color, and female鈥攖oo often we forget that those ballots cast were听. By exercising the franchise, we actively pay tribute to those men and women who made it possible for us to do so. ()
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Papers
The Medgar Wiley and Myrlie Beasley Evers Papers were presented to MDAH in 2002 by Mrs. Myrlie Evers-Williams. The collection currently includes Evers and Beasley family papers dating from the early 1900s to around July 1964, when Myrlie Evers and her children moved to Claremont, California. ()
The Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute
The mission of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute is to cultivate positive social change, intergenerational civic engagement, social and economic justice and research on equity, and justice worldwide. ()
MMEI offers programs to promote education, leadership and opportunity:
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- Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series听(in partnership with听Mississippi Department of Archives and History, W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (in partnership with听Mississippi Department of Archives and History, W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- Ambassadors of the Evers Academy for African American Males (A-TEAAM)听(in partnership with听Juanita Sims Doty Foundation)
- Williams Winters Institute for Racial Reconciliation 鈥� Summer Youth Program听(in partnership with听William Winters Institute for Racial Reconciliation)
Equal Justice Initiative
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. ()
Newest Unit of City University of New York Named for Medgar Evers (1970)
The newest college or the City University of New York, which will open next fall in mid鈥怋rooklyn, was named yesterday for Medgar W. Evers, the civil rights leader killed by a sniper in Mississippi in 1963.
His wife and two of their three children, who were flown in from Claremont, Calif., were present for brief ceremonies at the Y.M.C.A., 139 Monroe Street in the Bedford鈥怱tuyvesant section. About 50 persons, including members of the Board of Higher Education and community representatives, loudly applauded Mrs. Evers as she was presented with a scroll by Frederick Burkhardt, chairman of the board.
The scroll cited Mr. Evers鈥檚 鈥渆ffective contribution to the cause of human freedom and dignity.鈥�
鈥淚n choosing the name of Medgar Evers,鈥� the scroll said, 鈥渋t is our hope that his ideals will inspire students and faculty of the college in their pursuit of truth as the surest path to human freedom and social justice.鈥�()
A Tribute to Medgar Evers
Photo gallery, interviews with friends and family ()
Evers home virtual tour ()