Charles Evers

Those 39 students in Jackson were allowed past the front doors because just months before his death...

Mississippi NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers had filed suit on behalf of his two oldest children, Darrell and Rena Evers.

Medgar Evers was dead before the case made it to trial, assassinated in his own driveway by a staunch segregationist, and his children never attended an integrated school in Mississippi.

They moved out of state after their father's murder.

But from the grave, Medgar Evers beat back an organized attempt to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in the Brown case, an attempt planned, organized, and funded by Wickliffe Draper and his Eugenicist Pioneer Fund.

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