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Evers, Medgar (Wiley) (sh) and webbed toes (medicine)


Evers, Medgar (Wiley) (sh)




born July 2, 1925, Decatur, Miss., U.S.
died June 12, 1963, Philadelphia, Miss.

African American civil-rights activist.

After serving in World War II he entered business in Mississippi. He and his elder brother, Charles, began organizing local affiliates of the NAACP; in 1954 Medgar became the organization's first field secretary in Mississippi. He traveled throughout the state recruiting members and organizing economic boycotts. In June 1963, hours after a speech on civil rights by Pres. John F. Kennedy, Evers was shot and killed in an ambush outside his Home. A white segregationist was charged with the murder but was set free after two trials in 1964 resulted in hung juries; he was finally convicted after a third trial in 1994. Evers's widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, later headed the NAACP (1995-98).


webbed toes (medicine)


webbed toes
Syndactyly involving the toes.