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My biography is on Medgar Evers, a civil rights activest. You will read about his childhood, his NAACP involvment, and his assassination. During his civil rights journey his involvment with the KKK will be shocking. I choose this book because it just jumped at me. I hope you will find his life as intresting as much as I did. Born July 2, 1925 in Decatur Mississippi, Medgar Evers drooped out of school to enlist in the army with his brother Charlie. He fought in WWII And was honorably discharged in 1945. In 1948 Evers enrolled at Alcorn State University majoring in business adminstration. While at college he was on the debate team, football and track team, sang in the choir, and served as president of his junior class. He married Myrlie Beasleg on december 24, 1951, and the following year he completed work on his degree. In 1954 Evers became the NAACP's first field officer in MIssissippi. He was first intrested when he applied for the Universty of Mississippi wich at that time was segregated. He was turned down, that was when he fouced on the NAACp campaign to desegrate schools. He was involved in a boycott against white merchants and eventually desegrated the University of Mississippi when the were forced to enroll James Meredith 1962. During the weeks that led to evers death, he was a target for a number of threats. A molotov cocktail was thrown on the carport of his home. Also he was nerely run down by a car five days prior to his death. Evers pulled into his driveway om june 12, 1963 not knowing what was going to happen next. He had just got home from a NAACP integrarion meeting, when he stepped out of the car, a bullet was fired and hit him in the back. The bullet ricochted into his home,after staggering 30 feet Medgar Evers died 50 minutes later in a hospital. Evers was buired June 19 in Arlington National Cemetery. He was given full military honors and a crowd of over 3,00 people. JUne 23, 1964 Byron De La Beckwith, a salesman, and member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrestedfor Evers murder. During the two trials that year, all-white juries were in a deadlock and he escaped justice. Thirty years later in 1994 Beckwith was tried again based on new evidence. They took Evers body and gave him a autopsy. With the new evidence Beckwith was convicted of murder of Medgar Evers on February 5, 1994. He died January of 2001 in prison. I thought that this book defined Medgar Evers life very well. It told us about his childhood and NAACP involvment. It also let us know about his killer Beckwith. It said how he had killed him and how he boasted about it. It said about his childhood and how he was in the KKK. Overall I think that anyone that was intrested in the civil rights will enjoy this book. That is only part of Medgar Evers intresting life. There is much more that he did for the civil rights movement. He also did much more for the NAACP. Also there is much more about his assassination, like when Beckwith was tried again they found the gun that he shot Evers with was in the lawyer's dead dad's closet. This is a good book that you will be intrested in.