Evers family spearhead tributes and celebrations, p.18
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Evers family spearhead tributes and celebrations, p.18
Description
"Jackson, Miss. – The Fourth of July was a Day of remembrance and a day of hope for NAACP delegates, with the Evers family, themed freedom fighters, spearheading the celebration.
A touching tribute was paid Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP field director, who was killed by a sniper in Jackson six years ago. Medgar’s widow, Mrs. Myrlie Evers and his brother, now Mayer Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss., highlighted the services.
The Independence Day service held at Masonic Temple Assn memorialize the three civil rights workers, to wait, who were lynched in 1964 at Philadelphia, Miss, in Neshoba County, the four other martyrs of the civil rights struggle. Tribute was also paid NAACP members who died during the year.
Highlighting the service was feeling of a 4 foot high marvel monument in honor of Medgar Evers’ by his widow, Mrs. Myrlie Evers, now of Claremont, Calif.,
Who depicted my car as a man “who gave his life for what he believed in and the betterment of others.”
“This is the price that someone has to pay,“ declared his brother, Charles, and “I would like Medgar to know that since he has been go on the wheel hasn’t stopped.“
Describing them I will monument as “a 000,000 physical tribute, “Charles said “one man cannot do the job it takes many of us, and we decided long ago that Dan is not so bad, is what you die for.”
“A race of people never achieve freedom without somebody dying, and how you die is what counts, “he sighed
Dr. Aaron Henry of Clarksdale, Mississippi, state director of NAACP branches and a close friend of my girls, declared “Medger was shot in the back, but he fell forward, before 6 feet, 2 inches, and we sow memorialize him in the physical manner that he developed and his lifetime. “
Henry said it had not been decided exactly where the monument would be permanently placed, and asked for suggestions from NAACP delegates.
Later at the freedom Fund Banquet, miss Evers to cleared “Medgars saw his job is unique and challenging, exciting and frustrating, dangerous but rewarding. “She recalled that he believed his job was quoted in an instrument to help realize the American dream for all. “
Emotionally she cry “Medgars dream came true, came true earlier than expected but the dreamers not here to witness it. But his wife, his children, his friends and his coworkers were here to witness his dream Dash the NAACP meeting here.
“We wish for this and we wanted this no it is here.”
Between the two events, Dr. Henry letter group of newspaper man on a tour of Jackson‘s names, stopping at the state and federal offices to post events for the end of discrimination, on the closed doors.
Joining Dr. Henry and the hour long tour Charles Evers, the Rev. William J. Morrissey of the Natchez NAACP, and Alex waits director of the NAACP in coming in program, we been working in Mississippi for the past month.
As opposed to the petition, Dr. Henry said “what those word go forth from this place one day we will be free. “
Well we didn’t want you to go away thinking everything is peaches and roses and Jackson in Mississippi, “near Evers asserted as he read the news man or tour of town Creek, a badly polluted creek surrounded by sharks and flower pigpens and located only a block and a half in the capitol building.
Two weeks ago a young boy drowned in the creek which is the only place black children can swim now that the city has close the public swimming pools and play ground rather than desegregate[sic] them.
By dramatizing the slums for the world, Dr. Henry said well we hope to make life for their hope was better, and to help those unable to help themselves."
A touching tribute was paid Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP field director, who was killed by a sniper in Jackson six years ago. Medgar’s widow, Mrs. Myrlie Evers and his brother, now Mayer Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss., highlighted the services.
The Independence Day service held at Masonic Temple Assn memorialize the three civil rights workers, to wait, who were lynched in 1964 at Philadelphia, Miss, in Neshoba County, the four other martyrs of the civil rights struggle. Tribute was also paid NAACP members who died during the year.
Highlighting the service was feeling of a 4 foot high marvel monument in honor of Medgar Evers’ by his widow, Mrs. Myrlie Evers, now of Claremont, Calif.,
Who depicted my car as a man “who gave his life for what he believed in and the betterment of others.”
“This is the price that someone has to pay,“ declared his brother, Charles, and “I would like Medgar to know that since he has been go on the wheel hasn’t stopped.“
Describing them I will monument as “a 000,000 physical tribute, “Charles said “one man cannot do the job it takes many of us, and we decided long ago that Dan is not so bad, is what you die for.”
“A race of people never achieve freedom without somebody dying, and how you die is what counts, “he sighed
Dr. Aaron Henry of Clarksdale, Mississippi, state director of NAACP branches and a close friend of my girls, declared “Medger was shot in the back, but he fell forward, before 6 feet, 2 inches, and we sow memorialize him in the physical manner that he developed and his lifetime. “
Henry said it had not been decided exactly where the monument would be permanently placed, and asked for suggestions from NAACP delegates.
Later at the freedom Fund Banquet, miss Evers to cleared “Medgars saw his job is unique and challenging, exciting and frustrating, dangerous but rewarding. “She recalled that he believed his job was quoted in an instrument to help realize the American dream for all. “
Emotionally she cry “Medgars dream came true, came true earlier than expected but the dreamers not here to witness it. But his wife, his children, his friends and his coworkers were here to witness his dream Dash the NAACP meeting here.
“We wish for this and we wanted this no it is here.”
Between the two events, Dr. Henry letter group of newspaper man on a tour of Jackson‘s names, stopping at the state and federal offices to post events for the end of discrimination, on the closed doors.
Joining Dr. Henry and the hour long tour Charles Evers, the Rev. William J. Morrissey of the Natchez NAACP, and Alex waits director of the NAACP in coming in program, we been working in Mississippi for the past month.
As opposed to the petition, Dr. Henry said “what those word go forth from this place one day we will be free. “
Well we didn’t want you to go away thinking everything is peaches and roses and Jackson in Mississippi, “near Evers asserted as he read the news man or tour of town Creek, a badly polluted creek surrounded by sharks and flower pigpens and located only a block and a half in the capitol building.
Two weeks ago a young boy drowned in the creek which is the only place black children can swim now that the city has close the public swimming pools and play ground rather than desegregate[sic] them.
By dramatizing the slums for the world, Dr. Henry said well we hope to make life for their hope was better, and to help those unable to help themselves."
Creator
Art Carter
Publisher
Baltimore Afro-American
Date
1969-7-12
Collection
Citation
Art Carter, “Evers family spearhead tributes and celebrations, p.18,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 26, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/417.