This story was updated on April 24, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
Last year marked 60 years since key moments in the Civil Rights Movement: the 1963 March on Washington, the bombing of four Black girls at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the Children’s Crusade in Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birmingham letter, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the less-recognized assassination of Medgar Wiley Evers.
Evers’s sacrifices and activism contributed to the ongoing struggle for civil and human rights and inspired others to pursue justice and equality in all facets of American society. Now, politicians are urging President Joe Biden to recognize Evers and his sacrifice by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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