Medgar Evers

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Civil rights icon Medgar Evers was born on this day in 1925.

Evers' life was cut far too short 50 years ago, when the civil rights activist and war veteran was assassinated at just 37-years-old by a White supremacist.

Although Evers would not live to see the Civil Rights Movement blossom, he helped plant early seeds of change in the Deep South that eventually took hold.
 

We celebrate the life of Evers on what would have been his 88th birthday.

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