Who Was Medgar Evers?
Description
In the early 1950s, times were hard for many black Americans in the old South. Rigid segregation was the rule of the day and African Americans found themselves on the periphery of American life and spontaneous lynchings. But even before the birth of the modern civil rights movement, one black man declared non-violent warfare on the old Jim Crow system. This program from Tony Brown's Journal discusses Medgar Evers' story and how he became one of the many casualties of the civil rights struggle.
Runtime
27 min 31 sec
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Geography
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