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He has won many awards including a grammy, a golden globe, and the nobel prize for literature. He wrote the song "Only a pawn in their game" about Medgar Evers.

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What awards has he won?
What are his achievements?
How is he related to the rest of these topics?

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- On 12th June, 1963, he was shot while returning home from a  NAACP meeting.

- His murder had a great impact on the people fighting for civil rights at the time, and sparked protests and movements of their own.
- It even inspired Nina Simone's song "Mississippi, Goddam."

- His murderer was white supremacist Byron de La Beckwith
- In 1964, two all-male, all white juries deadlocked and refused to convict him.
-  In 1989, evidence emerged that jurors had been illegally screened, and de La Beckwith was tried again. He was found guilty and died in prison in 2001.

- He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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He is a singer
1960s
"Like a rolling stone"
"Times they are a changin"

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- At 17, Evers enlisted in the US Army. He participated in the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. He rose the rank of sergeant, and was then honourably discharged in 1946.

- After he came back, he was outraged at the racism and injustice of the Jim Crowe South. He became the NAACP's first field officer; he recruited new members, encouraged African Americans to vote, championed school integration, and organised protests.

- He also advocated for investigations and the pursuit of justice after the lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955.

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influential in the civil rights movement

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influential in the civil rights movement

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Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream speech". This movement led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

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Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream speech". This movement led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

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the march was  most likely a cause of this act being put in place the year later

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what was the cause and effect of it

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(1925-1963)
- Born in Decatur, Mississippi
- Graduated from Alcorn State University
- Became active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s

- Applied to the University of Mississippi law school
- Was rejected
- Worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in segregated society
- Awarded the 1963 NAACP Spingarn Medal
- Assassinated (due to racially motivated reasons)
- Byron de La Beckwith - tried for his murder

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Martin Luther King Jr delivers "I have a dream speech" in 1963

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What were some of his achievements?

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What was his impact on society/Why was he famous?

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What time period did he live through?

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Who is he?

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All of us don't know anything about Evers.