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Portrait of Medgar Evers.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (6 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Smithsonian Institution Press, [date of publication not identified]
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Tia Powell Harris and Frank Goodyear of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery look deeply into a 1963 photograph of Mississippi civil rights martyr Medgar Evers. Medgar Evers played a critical role in organizing and sustaining the Jackson Movement a multifaceted campaign to end segregation in Mississippi's most populous city. In the spring of 1963, Evers launched a boycott of stores in Jackson's main shopping district after the city's mayor rejected a NAACP-sponsored resolution calling for fair hiring practices in municipal jobs, desegregation of public facilities and accommodations, an end to discriminatory business practices, and the establishment of a biracial committee to combat injustice and promote reform.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed February 13, 2020).
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