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  African American
  African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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• Bobby DeLaughter
  Robert "Bobby" DeLaughter (born February 28, 1954) is a Mississippi prosecutor, judge, and author. He prosecuted and secured the conviction of Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The Beckwith prosecution occurred in January 1994. Evers was assassinated by Beckwith on June 12, 1963. Mississippi authorities had twice previously failed to convict Beckwith in 1964.
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• Byron De La Beckwith
  Byron De La Beckwith (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman who was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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• Charles Evers
  James Charles Evers (born September 11, 1922) is an important civil rights advocate in the United States. The older brother of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, Charles Evers is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi. He was the first African American elected since the Reconstruction era as mayor in a Mississippi city, in Fayette in 1969. He ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978, both times as an independent.
  http://wn.com/Charles_Evers
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  Clyde Kennard
  Clyde Kennard (June 12, 1927–July 4, 1963) was an African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) pioneer and martyr born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who attempted several times to enroll at Mississippi Southern College (now known as University of Southern Mississippi), still reserved for whites in the segregated 1950s. Instead, Kennard was framed by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, which conspired to have him arrested on false charges. He was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison.
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• Edwin A. Walker
  http://wn.com/Edwin_A_Walker
• Emmett Till
  http://wn.com/Emmett_Till
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  Eudora Welty
  Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American author who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. Her book ''The Optimist's Daughter'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, is a National Historic Landmark and open to the public as a museum.
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• Howard Rollins
  Howard Ellsworth Rollins, Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in the film Ragtime, and for his portrayal of Virgil Tibbs in the NBC/CBS television series In the Heat of the Night.
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• Irene Cara
  Irene Cara (born March 18, 1962) is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.
  http://wn.com/Irene_Cara
• Jackson C. Frank
  Jackson Carey Frank (March 2, 1943 - March 3, 1999) was an American folk musician.
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  James Meredith
  James H. Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure. He was the first African American student at the University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. Motivated by the broadcast of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (which did not mention civil rights ) Meredith decided to apply his democratic rights and then made the ultimate decision to apply to the University of Mississippi. Meredith's goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration as to the issue.
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  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
  http://wn.com/John_F_Kennedy
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  Malvina Reynolds
  Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her song writing, particularly the song, "Little Boxes."
  http://wn.com/Malvina_Reynolds
• Margaret Walker
  Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an African-American poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. One of her best-known poems is For My People.
  http://wn.com/Margaret_Walker
• NAACP
  http://wn.com/NAACP
• Nina Simone
  Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is most associated with jazz music. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles that include classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, R&B;, gospel, and pop. Her vocal style is characterized by intense passion, a loose vibrato, and a slightly androgynous timbre, in part due to her unusually low vocal range which veered between the alto and tenor ranges (occasionally even reaching baritone lows). Also known as The High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness and tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, amplified by bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-1960s, something not widely known until after her death in 2003, though she wrote of it openly in her autobiography published in 1992. According to Nadine Cohodas, Simone's biographer, Ms. Simone was first diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and later with schizophrenia.
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  Phil Ochs
  Philip David Ochs () (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and released eight albums in his lifetime.
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  Ray Mabus
  Raymond Edwin "Ray" Mabus, Jr. (born October 11, 1948) is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy. Mabus served as the 60th Governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996. President Obama has asked him to develop a long-term Gulf Coast Restoration Plan as soon as possible. The plan will be designed by states, local communities, tribes, fishermen, businesses, conservationists and other Gulf residents".
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  Rex Stout
  Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair).
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  Rob Reiner
  Robert Norman "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, writer and political activist.
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• Ross Barnett
  Ross Robert Barnett (January 22, 1898 November 6, 1987) was the governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a States' Rights Democrat.
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  T. R. M. Howard
  Dr.Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard (4 March 1908 – 1 May 1976) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was one of the mentors to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the 1950s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and played a prominent role in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. He was also president of the National Medical Association and chairman of the board of the National Negro Business League.
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  Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg (; born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host.
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• Brooklyn, New York
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• Decatur, Mississippi
  Decatur is a town in Newton County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,426 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Newton County. This town is named after war hero Stephen Decatur, Jr.
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  France
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  Jackson, Mississippi
  Jackson, or Jackson City, is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County (the town of Raymond is the other), but the city also contains areas in Madison and Rankin counties. During the 90s Jackson saw a decline in population while its suburbs boomed. Sometimes the city is credited with going through the stages the city of Atlanta went through 70s-90s with its suburbs. Jackson including its surrounding suburbs boast a strong economy as well as population. The 2000 census recorded Jackson's population at 184,256, but according to July 1, 2008 estimates, the city's population was 173,861 and its five-county Jackson metropolitan area had a population of 628,817. The Jackson-Yazoo City combined statistical area, consisting of the Jackson metropolitan area and Yazoo City micropolitan area, has a population of over 600,000, making it the 88th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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  Lincolnshire
  Lincolnshire ( or ; abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire. It also borders Northamptonshire for just 19 metres (20 yards), England's shortest county boundary. The county town is the city of Lincoln, where the county council has its headquarters.
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  Mississippi
  Mississippi () is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, which namesake is from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi ("Great River"). The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area, and its catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States. The state symbol is the magnolia grandiflora tree.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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• A Right to Die
• activism
• African American
• Alec Baldwin
• Anne Moody
• autopsy
• Bob Dylan
• Bobby DeLaughter
• boycott
• Brooklyn, New York
• bumper sticker
• Byron De La Beckwith
• Charles Evers
• choir
• Clyde Kennard
• College football
• colon cancer
• Decatur, Mississippi
• desegregation
• District attorney
• Edwin A. Walker
• embalming
• Emmett Till
• Eudora Welty
• filling station
• France
• full military honors
• governor
• honorable discharge
• Howard Rollins
• hung jury
• Irene Cara
• Jackson C. Frank
• Jackson, Mississippi
• James Baldwin
• James Meredith
• James Pickens Jr.
• James Woods
• Jim Crow laws
• John F. Kennedy
• Ku Klux Klan
• Lincolnshire
• M1917 Enfield
• Major General
• Malvina Reynolds
• Margaret Walker
• Medgar Evers College
• military funeral
• Mississippi
• Mississippi Burning
• Mississippi Goddam
• Molotov cocktail
• NAACP
• Nina Simone
• Phil Ochs
• Ray Mabus
• Rex Stout
• Rob Reiner
• Ross Barnett
• Sergeant
• T. R. M. Howard
• television movie
• track and field
• United States
• United States Army
• United States Navy
• verdict
• Whoopi Goldberg

Evers, Medgar Filmography

• Southern Justice: The Murder of Medgar Evers (1994)
• I due Kennedy (1969)