Each member of this group should do the following:
1. Provide a brief summary (in your own words) of your topic.
2. State what you want your audience to understand after they watch your performance.
3. Identify your best source for primary source material thusfar.
1. Our topic is about the assassination of Medgar Evers, who was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ever since he was young, Evers was disgusted about the living conditions that colored people had to suffer through and that no one was willing to take action. He was constantly questioning the Jim Crow segregation laws in Mississippi and when he returned from World War 2 after getting drafted to see that everything was still segregated, Evers had had enough. Medgar started to boycott and integrate schools around the state, but there were some people against his decisions. On a night in June of 1963, he was shot by Byron De La Beckwith and later died in a hospital. It took over 30 years for his killer to be brought to justice, but Medgar Evers’ dedication was not put to waste. He was able to make a difference in his society and change the way the colored community was viewed.
ReplyDelete2. After viewing our performance, I would like our audience to understand that one person can make a difference in their society. Medgar Evers was the first in his to stand up for his rights and try to change the way he was treated. He didn’t do this only for his own benefit, but for every other colored person. He knew there was a problem and instead of being a bystander, he took action and was able to get others involved too.
3. I found that the “Student Resources in Context” had a lot of good information that brought many quotes I hope to use in our script. The direct link to the article is: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE|EJ2116100021&mode=view&
1. The assassination of Medgar Evers is our group topic as known. It's basically about a man named Medgar Evers who was assassination at his Jackson home in front of his wife. Evers was a member of the NAACP which as Rachel stated is known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Evers was denied entrance into Ole Miss college "because he was black" He often spoke and advocated equality more specifically against segregation. Because Evers was denied entrance to Ole Miss he tried to integrate schools. Megar Evers was assassinated on June 12, 1962 by Byron De La Beckwin.
ReplyDelete2. After our performance I hope that the viewers will understand the story of Medgar Evers life and the impact he had on others. Medgar Ever's family was very influential in President Obama becoming the president. Also understand what Medgar Evers was all about and why we should care and know about his life and assassination.
3. I don't have a "main source" Because I've been pulling quote mostly from audio. Mostly from interview of his loved ones speaking about his death and what Evers was about.
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ReplyDeleteOur project is about the assassination of Medgar Evers. Evers was a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Before his career in the NAACP, he enrolled in Alcorn State University, majoring in business administration. He also in the meantime, joined the US Army during WWII and fought for his country. Little did he know, soon after that, race and color became a problem. He lived through segregation, but besides that, he realized the bad conditions that African Americans were faced with and he wanted to figure out a way to improve those standards. He questioned Jim Crow after the segregation laws were put in place and started boycotting segregated places like “Black Only” and “White Only” places such as bathrooms, drinking fountains, neighborhoods, and schools. He even had bumper stickers made that he passed out that had the slogan "Don't Buy Gas Where You Can't Use the Restroom.” It was Evers’ goal to stop segregation and support African Americans, like himself, be equal. As voting rights were put in place that allowed them to vote, he came into realization that color and race is major problem in society when “he and five friends were forced away at gunpoint from voting in a local election” (NAACP.org). He gained fellow supporters of his race and some others of mixed race, but he had an atrocious enemy, the KKK. KKK member, Byron De La Beckwith, murdered Evers, shooting him in the back an evening after one of his speeches. Presidents thereafter commended him. Our current President spoke about in a video that I’ve found about how he was influenced to become president by Evers and without Evers, he may not have made presidency, being African American. President J. F. Kennedy also spoke of him as well as Vice President Johnson after Kennedy’s assassination. A trial was scheduled and fought through a little bit after Evers’ death and Beckwith was set free; they had an all-white jury. Three decades later, the case was reopened with more evidence found and Beckwith was sentenced to life at age 73.
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After watching our performance, as a group, we’d like the audience to walk away with the knowledge that one man can make a huge impact in society and that one man can make history. Medgar Evers played a huge role in Civil Rights as a field secretary for the NAACP, and one evening a member of the KKK assassinated him after one of Evers’ speeches. I want the audience to understand how Evers tried so hard in what he did and had many supporters and the KKK didn’t like him and was fully against his platform per say and shot him point blank at his back in the late evening.
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I have found several sources that I have used a lot for my research. One of which I found just today, which is the NAACP website, which I never thought to look up until I came across it. On NAACP.ORG, I found a lot of information of Medgar Evers’ life story and how he met his wife and all of his career and education up until his assassination and imprisonment of De La Beckwith. The site had an immense chuck of information to go through. Another source that I used was Discovery Education. Now this site wasn’t chosen as a documentation of facts and stories of Evers, but of the videos and documentaries and archived photos of Evers and about him.
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ReplyDeleteOur topic is on the assassination of Medger Evers who is a African american that was a field secretary for the NAACP. Before being so he was a student at Alcorn university and grew up loving in Mississippi. He was enrolled into the army and in 1943 and soon after was discriminated because of his race and color. He married Myrlie Evers who helped conquer this discrimination in December of 1951. After he received a job from T.R.M. Howard who hired him to sell insurance. Surprisingly, Howard was also the head of the RCNL, Regional Council of Negro Leadership. Medger entered into that association, which lead him to entering into the NAACP, and becoming its first ever field secretary. Along with fellow blacks , he patrolled the streets asking and boycotting campaign's for equality among races. His main focus was towards the white merchants of Mississippi who felt his ideas and the NAACP ideas were preposterous. He made a lot of enemies through this process and received lots of death threats. These threats led to his actually death when someone right after the JFK shooting, shot Medger in the back at his own house. His wife fought for his case and years later got the benefit and brought the perpetrator to justice.
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