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Remembering Medgar Evers on his 100th birthday

Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), poses for a photo, Aug. 9, 1955, in Jackson, Miss. (AP)
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Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), poses for a photo, Aug. 9, 1955, in Jackson, Miss. (AP)

We remember Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist assassinated in 1963, on the 100-year anniversary of his birth with Peniel Joseph, professor of public affairs and the founding director of the Center for Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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