The Realist Story never told, Medgar Evers

Many heroes as left out of history; their stories never told and their work lifetime of work never completed. Medgar Evers is one of these people his life was cut short by the bullet of an assassin. Mississippi was considered by some to be the bottom of the country; with cases of blacks getting arrested only to be lynched by mobs of unrighteous overseers of the laws of the segregated south. Medgar Evers organized the freedom summer, bringing in whites from all over the country to the deep south. He believed that if upper class whites from outside the south would come and bring attention to the struggle of the black man that things could change. Medgar Evers saw that in some counties in the state no blacks were registered to vote; even in some counties were they were the majority. Medgar Evers was one of the strongest supporters of black voting rights during his tenure as the field secretary of the NAACP he organized a march on Jackson, Mississippi followed by a press conference that outlined the plans of the march. This was a first in Mississippi for a black man to show his distaste for injustice in the state in a very public forum. And for his efforts he was praised by blacks and hunted by whites. On June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers was shot in the back at his home while carrying t-shirts that read “Jim Crow Must Go" fifty minutes later he died at a local hospital and hours before John F. Kennedy’s speech in support of the civil rights movement. This is one of the realist examples that of how blacks in America gave their life for freedom during the civil rights movement.