Evers was the indigen of Decatur, Mississippi, and a graduate of Alcorn State University, located in Lorman, Mississippi. Upon completing his degree, he applied to the so-segregated University of Mississippi Law School, basing his attempt on the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education 347 US 483 that segregation was unconstitutional. After his applicatiin was rejected on evidence of race, Evers became a focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the school.

Evers himself became a NAACP's foremost fo inside Mississippi. He was included around the boycott campaign against whiten merchandiser within Jackson and instrumental in sooner or later desegregating a University of Mississippi after it was eventually forced to enroll James Meredith in 1962.

Good when midnight in 12 June 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated just fallowing pulling into his private road. His dying was mourned nationally, & he was buried around Arlington National Cemetery. Bobby Dylan wrote the song "Only a Pawn in their Game" about Evers & his assassin, and Nina Simone wrote "Mississippi Goddamn" in response to the event. (Evers is too mentioned in the Phil Ochs song "Love Me I'm a Liberal" & memorialized around Ochs's "Too Many Martyrs.") A human believed to keep around been his assassin, whiten racialist Byron De La Beckwith, was twice acquitted when everthing-white juries may not email agreement, however inside 1994 Beckwith was bring back test in fresh grounds to believe according to statements he manufactured to others. When you took the test, a body of Evers was exhumed from either his grave for postmortem, & detected to exist as around a amazingly fantabulous state of preservation. Byrin De La Beckwith was eventually convicted on February 5, 1994, more than trinity decades fallowing a execution. Beckwith appealed a finding of fact unsuccessfully, & he died around prison within 2001.

A 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi tells the story of the 1994 test.