Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers

Born

July 2, 1925

Died

June 12, 1963 (37 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Decatur, Mississippi, USA

Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith.