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LeftinOH

(5,357 posts) Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:04 AM Jun 2013

50 years ago today - Medgar Evers assassinated

"Freedom has never been free...I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them." -Medgar Evers, June 7th, 1963.

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50 years ago today - Medgar Evers assassinated (Original Post) LeftinOH Jun 2013 OP

... RainDog Jun 2013 #1

OH LET IT NEVER BE AGAIN! Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #2

Guns complete The Southern Strategy. nt onehandle Jun 2013 #3

k&r HappyMe Jun 2013 #4

50 years... Cirque du So-What Jun 2013 #5

It was one of the scariest days of my life as a kid, it felt so personal to me. freshwest Jun 2013 #6

RainDog

(28,784 posts)

1. ...

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Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:14 AM

Jun 2013

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)

2. OH LET IT NEVER BE AGAIN!

Reply to LeftinOH (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:14 AM

Jun 2013

Thanks for this.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

3. Guns complete The Southern Strategy. nt

Reply to LeftinOH (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:31 AM

Jun 2013

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

4. k&r

Reply to LeftinOH (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:55 AM

Jun 2013

I just saw an interview with his wife on GMA.

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

5. 50 years...

Reply to LeftinOH (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 09:13 AM

Jun 2013

and yet, racists are working overtime - as we speak - to overturn the modest gains made in the interim. Thank you for this reminder.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

6. It was one of the scariest days of my life as a kid, it felt so personal to me.

Reply to LeftinOH (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 09:23 AM

Jun 2013

I was afraid to go outside and my dad had to talk to me about it. The killing didn't end there, it was one shock after another for years. RIP, Medgar, John, Martin and Bobby. And so many others.

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