American - Activist | July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963
I may be going to Heaven or Hell, but I'll be going from Jackson.
Medgar Evers
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First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'
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Our only hope is to control the vote.
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If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
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The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
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Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
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As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens' Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County.
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I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.
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