Medgar Evers becomes NAACP Mississippi field secretary

Medgar Evers became the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi in 1954, organizing voter registration drives and investigating racial violence in one of the most dangerous states for Black Americans. Evers worked at constant personal risk until his assassination in 1963, and his martyrdom galvanized the civil rights movement and led directly to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.