Episode Details

As they reach the halfway point of Black History Month, Lauren and Amanda are changing up their format a little bit to spend two weeks in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. This week, they're covering the murder of activist and NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers.

Sources:

• Medgar Evers College: “History: The Murder of Medgar Evers”
• FBI History: “Medgar Evers”
• Zinn Education Project: “This Day in History: June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers Murdered in Mississippi”
• Mississippi History Now: “Medgar Evers and the Origin of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi” by Dernoral Davis
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: “June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers Murdered”
• NAACP: “Medgar Evers”
• History.com: “This Day in History: June 12, 1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated”
• History.com: “Montgomery Bus Boycott”
• AP News: “60 years after Medgar Evers’ murder, his widow continues a civil rights legacy” by Emily Wagster Pettus
• The Washington Post: “Medgar Evers battled for civil rights. His home shows what it cost him.” by DeNeen L. Brown
• Stanford Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute: “Evers, Medgar Wiley”
• The New York Times: “Beckwith’s Second Trial Ends in Hung Jury” by John Herbers
• The New York Times: “Beckwith Case a Mistrial; Jury was 7-5 for Acquittal” by John Herbers
• Time: “Trials: Hung Jury” by No Byline
• TruthDig: “A Black Voter Suppression Slap in the Face” by Michael Datcher
• Documentary: Stamped from the Beginning
• Black History for White People podcast: “Medgar Evers - Part 1” & “Medgar Evers - Part 2”
• Crime Binge podcast: “Episode 57: Medgar Evers”
• Deadly Faith podcast: “Episode 23: The Assassination of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers | with Guest Kyle Butler”
• Wikipedia

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