Medgar Evers

Known for Acting

Medgar Evers's portrait

Details

Birthday: July 02, 1925

Deathday: June 12, 1963

Place of birth: Decatur, Mississippi, USA

Biography

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.