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Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. He was shot in the back as he returned home from a civil rights meeting. Evers was a prominent civil rights activist and the NAACP's first Mississippi field secretary, and his murder highlighted the violent resistance to the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

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