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| A recruiter for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Medgar Evers was active in campaigns to end racial discrimination in his home state of Mississippi. Evers organized boycotts of businesses that discriminated against blacks and he encouraged blacks to register to vote. He was gunned down in front of his house in Jackson on June 12, 1963. His murder made him a nationally known figure and a symbol of the fight for civil rights. | ||||||
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