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#9211, aired 2024-11-25I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $1000: Fannie Lou Hamer & this fellow civil rights icon, assassinated at his home in 1963, were honored together in 2009 Medgar Evers
#9125, aired 2024-06-14TILL DEATH DO US PART $2000: Sadly, an assassin's bullet took civil rights activist Medgar from this wife June 12, 1963 in Mississippi Myrlie Evers(-Williams)
#9057, aired 2024-03-12FROM THE NEWSPAPERS $600: 1963: this civil rights leader "survived the Normandy invasion but died of an assassin's bullet in Mississippi" (Medgar) Evers
#8926, aired 2023-09-11MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $2000: The former home of this civil rights legend, slain in 1963, is now a national monument (Medgar) Evers
#8874, aired 2023-05-18ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $1000: Lefleur's Bluff State Park & the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument Jackson
#8493, aired 2021-10-20"E"-MALE $800: A World War II vet, this slain NAACP field secretary in Mississippi was buried with full military honors at Arlington Medgar Evers
#8132, aired 2020-01-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): When Medgar Evers was gunned down in 1963, he was the Mississippi field secretary of this national organization the NAACP
#8074, aired 2019-10-17HISTORIC NAMES $1000: The international airport serving Jackson, Mississippi is named for this civil rights leader, assassinated in 1963 (Medgar) Evers
#7703, aired 2018-02-21YOU KNOW MY NAME $1000: Compiled by his widow Myrlie, the autobiography of this slain civil rights leader was published 43 years after his death Medgar Evers
#7615, aired 2017-10-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP Myrlie Evers
#7485, aired 2017-03-1012 LETTERS OR MORE $2,000 (Daily Double): William Faulkner, Medgar Evers or B.B. King, by birth state Mississippian
#7446, aired 2017-01-16CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $2000: In 2005, the Jackson International Airport was renamed in honor of this leader slain outside his house in 1963 (Medgar) Evers
#7168, aired 2015-11-11FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIPLES $800: A mender of pots & pans, activist Medgar & an orange Monopoly card tinker, Evers & Chance
#6846, aired 2014-05-26MISTER "E" CATEGORY $2000: Slain in Mississippi in 1963, this civil rights leader was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery Medgar Evers
#6583, aired 2013-04-10GROUP ON $1,500 (Daily Double): Medgar Evers was a field secretary for this group; his widow Myrlie Evers-Williams was the first woman to head it the NAACP
#6084, aired 2011-02-10THE STATE OF MY BIRTH $1000: Medgar Evers, Oprah Winfrey, Eudora Welty Mississippi
#5867, aired 2010-03-02THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: This civil rights leader won in 1963, the year of his murder; his wife Myrlie won in '98 (Medgar) Evers
#5127, aired 2006-12-19TRIOS $1200: To experiment with, activist Medgar & Peter Sellers' "Being There" role tinker, Evers & Chance
#4787, aired 2005-05-31THE NAACP $2000: (Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) In 1995 this widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers became the first woman to head the NAACP Myrlie Evers(-Williams)
#4751, aired 2005-04-11ASSASSINS $600: In 1994, 31 years after the crime, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murdering this Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers
#4465, aired 2004-01-23BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $800: A soldier during WWII, this civil rights leader, murdered in Mississippi in 1963, is buried at Arlington (Medgar) Evers
#4341, aired 2003-06-16BORN THE SAME DAY $2000: U.S. black leader Medgar Evers was born July 2, 1925, like this murdered first prime minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba
#4244, aired 2003-01-30ORGANIZATIONS $800: In February 1995 Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar, was elected this organization's chairperson NAACP
#4236, aired 2003-01-20THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $2000: When shot in 1963, Medgar Evers was carrying shirts with the slogan this character, a segregation symbol, "Must Go" Jim Crow
#3781, aired 2001-01-29MOVIE PORTRAYALS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Yolanda King. My father was Martin Luther King, Jr.) In the 1996 movie "Ghosts of Mississippi", I played Reena, the daughter of this civil rights leader killed in 1963 Medgar Evers
#3345, aired 1999-03-05WAY BACK IN 1995 $300: Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers, was sworn in as its chairwoman in 1995 NAACP
#3086, aired 1998-01-19THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $400: He led efforts to desegregate Jackson, Mississippi & was killed there June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers
#2580, aired 1995-11-17BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The "Voice of Harlem"; he served in the House of Representatives from 1945-67 & 1969-1970 Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
#2474, aired 1995-05-11IN THE NEWS $300: Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was elected head of this org. NAACP
#2311, aired 1994-09-26BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1994 Byron de la Beckwith received a life sentence for the 1963 murder of this Miss. civil rights leader Medgar Evers
#2065, aired 1993-07-23BLACK AMERICA $400: Charles Evers, brother of this civil rights leader, was mayor of Fayette, Miss. from 1969-1981 Medgar Evers

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