https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1 en-us 2016-02-05 15:09:38 UTC 2026-01-01 11:51:42 UTC hello@padlet.com mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/93485981 2016-02-05 15:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/93485981 mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/93494306 Evers was drafted into the U.S. army in 1943, where he fought in France and Germany in WWII. http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324#fighting-against-discrimination.]]> 2016-02-05 15:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/93494306 mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94499703 In 1948 he entered Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University) in Lorman, Mississippi, majoring in business administration. http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324#fighting-against-discrimination.]]> 2016-02-11 02:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94499703 mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94500282 Evers met his wife Myrlie Beasley while at Alcorn, they had three children: Darrell, Reena, & James. http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324.]]> 2016-02-11 02:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94500282 mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94500855 Evers applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi Law School in February 1954. When his application was rejected, Evers became the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the school in the famous Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-medgar-evers.]]> 2016-02-11 02:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94500855 mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94501277  At 12:40 a.m. on June 12, 1963, Evers was shot  in the back and killed in the driveway of his home by Byron De La Beckwith. http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324.]]> 2016-02-11 02:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94501277 mcsluke11 https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94501666 Medgar Evers contributed a lot to African Americans and the Civil Rights movement. He served as the president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, where he helped organize boycotts of white service stations that denied restroom use to blacks. He was also the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the University of Mississippi Law School after his application was rejected, in what became the Brown v. Board of Education case. Evers also became the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi, and soon after moving to Jackson he played an instrumental role in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi]]> 2016-02-11 02:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mcsluke11/3m9mteb7vgn1/wish/94501666