John Lewis

Produced by Equal Justice Initiative A 25-year-old John Lewis led marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, attempting to reach Montomery on March 7, 1965, which came to be…

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Medgar Evers

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such,…

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