It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.

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• Medgar Evers:

  Our only hope is to control the vote.

• Medgar Evers:

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

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  Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare

• Medgar Evers:

  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