Black History Month / Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers 1925 to 1963
Black Civil Rights Leader
Movie about his Life:
The Ghost of Mississippi- 1996
Whoppi Goldberg & Alec Baldwin

ATTENTION: Please watch movie with family, especially children! This Blog will be commentary mostly! This is done because Medgar Evers was so strong of a leader. Many facts about him and the situations he faced in Mississippi are played down in history.

I know, this will be hard to accepted for many Blacks, but the TRUTH will set you free!!! The deal Martin Luther King Jr negotiated for Blacks in American with the United States government in all those back door deals! Was a bad, bad deal for us! As a whole {Black people} we are in worst condition then before the signing of the Civil Rights Bill! Check out any report on the subject!
This is the real reason King is promoted so heavily in the media! The Whites got a good deal from King! Yeah, King was killed in 1968, but only after he started changing his views, and push the movement in a new direction economy equality for Blacks then they killed him!

Other Black leaders like Medgar Evers did not negotiating with Whites! It was simple for Black Leaders like Evers, for Black people it is going to be ALL OR NOTHING! The other leaders had short and quiet careers, on purpose they were not negotiation with Whites under no circumstances!

We {Blacks} think that cause we have more material goods {houses, cars & clothes} we are better off! But you are dead wrong!!! Look at your communities, the schools, crime, and housing condition! These are the things that count! If nothing else ownership in the Black communities what business do we own!    

Medgar Evers was determined to make a change early in his life. He actually walked twelve (12) miles to school! He felt very strongly about education. He also went to Alcorn State where earned his B.A.

Evers ideas changed about racism after coming back from WWII. Like many Blacks they simple felt if they could die for this country, they should have equal rights and benefits.

*Note
The Black Civil Rights Movement has many phase. It speeds up and slows down. From a African {Black} point of view that started the day we got of the slave boat! We been fighting to the present! Histrionically {His-Story} It has its first phase after the Civil War {Reconstruction}. The second after WWII / there a few who say 1931 during the Scottsboys Trail. There was a lot of protest from Blacks who came become from WWII. This is played down GREATLY in history. They shift everything to Martin Luther King Jr.

Evers began with the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (R.C.N.L) helping organize the community. In 1954, Evers applied to University of Mississippi, but his application was rejected. So he file a lawsuit against the university!

This put him in contact with N.A.A.C.P. From there a relationship was development, and Evers start working for the N.A.A.C.P as a field director!

Evers did some many different things for Blacks through the N.A.A.C.P.
Evers biggest triumph was getting James Meredith in University of Mississippi, were he, himself had fail.

I really want to point out the stress that Evers dealt with day in and day out! The death threats daily, by phone to his home where his wife and three (3) small children lived. The letters he received. When crossing the street people trying running him down with their cars and trucks. People stalking his home were his family lived. The racial slurs. White people said when walking or driving by him. The list goes on and on of threats!

Evers was assassinated in 1963. Evers was shot in the back as he got out of his car, from a man across the street in some bushes! All this in front of his wife, when she screamed the children ran to the door in panic, causing them to see accidentally their father killed!

De la Beckwith  had been the man in the bushes that shot Evers! De la Beckwith had bragged about killing Evers, he often said "the state of Mississippi will never find a White man guilty of killing a nigga"! De la Beckwith was almost right! It took two (2) trails and thirty (30) years to convict a man that openly admitted to killing Megar Evers! But thanks to Evers wife who said as long as she lived there was going to be justice for killing her husband!!!

We thank Megar Evers and his wife Myrile Evers for paying the ultimate price for freedom, DEATH! Freedom is not free! There are people who work everyday against us {Black people}! Megar Evers knew that, and that's why he fought on!

peace, love and unity!