Medgar Evers' legacy continues 60 years after murder
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(12 Jun 2023)
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 1 January 1963
1. STILL headshot of Medgar Evers
HEADLINE: Medgar Evers' legacy continues 60 years after murder
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Jackson, Mississippi – 9 June 2023
2. Sign at ceremony: ‘Honoring Medgar Evers’
ANNOTATION: It's been 60 years since civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered outside his Mississippi home.
3. Exterior of Medgar and Myrlie Evers home
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 3++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Myrlie Evers-Williams, Medgar Evers’ Widow:
“Mississippi is the state of my birth. I along with so many other people have suffered because it as the state of our birth. My husband gave his life so that it could be better for all of us, but I think it has moved in that direction. How swiftly? I don’t know.
5. Myrlie Evers’ Williams is greeted as she walks down sidewalk
ANNOTATION: His widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, is 90 years old. She says he misses him terribly and is proud of his legacy.
6. Audience claps at ceremony
ANNOTATION: Several events have been held in Mississippi this month to commemorate the work of the Evers family.
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 9 August 1955
7. STILL of Evers
ANNOTATION: Evers was leader of the Mississippi NAACP from 1954 until his death in 1963. He pushed for voting rights and racial equality.
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Jackson, Mississippi – 9 June 2023
8. Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument sign
ANNOTATION: Evers-Williams was national chairperson of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998. She says she remains committed to trying to eliminate racism and prejudice.
9. Flowers sit outside of the Evers’ home
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Myrlie Evers-Williams, Medgar Evers’ Widow:
“I don’t know if that day will ever come in the United States, but we still have to keep moving on up. I’m still working toward that day and I hope I will be able to do so until I take my last breath.”
11. Banner details Evers’ work
STORYLINE:
At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, as she reflects on his work to push the U.S. toward a promise of equality and justice for all.
It's been 60 years since a white supremacist hid in the darkness of night and assassinated Evers outside the family's Jackson home, shooting the Mississippi NAACP leader hours after then-President John F. Kennedy gave a televised speech advocating civil rights legislation.
Evers-Williams and the couple's three young children were in the house. After hearing the crack of a rifle, she rushed to her mortally wounded husband, who lay bleeding in the carport.
“Medgar is so very much a part of me, and he’s here,” Evers-Williams told about 200 people who gathered on a hot and humid morning last week for the ceremonial opening of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service.
The monument is in a subdivision where people still raise families in modest two- and three-bedroom homes. The Evers home is open for tours by appointment, but anybody can stop by a new visitors' space nearby, which has a herb and vegetable garden.
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