If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

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• Medgar Evers:

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  As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by

• Medgar Evers:

  The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro w

• Medgar Evers:

  I may be going to Heaven or Hell, but I'll be going from Jackson.

• Medgar Evers:

  I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a

• Medgar Evers:

  We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob bloc

• Medgar Evers:

  I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

• Medgar Evers:

  I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law schoo

• Medgar Evers:

  As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to

• Medgar Evers:

  I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got