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Deaths || Child's Play 3 (1991)
#charles lee ray#haskell sullivan#colonel cochrane#sergeant botnick#brett shelton#harold whitehurst#kristen de silva#andy barclay#child's play 3#my gifs#horror movie gif#chucky movies#child's play#chucky#90s horror#horror movies#blood
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Sarah, I was imagining that Chucky creeps Andy singing that
Chucky likes Polly for all the wrong reasons and it really annoys Andy
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Child's Play é uma franquia de mídia americana de terror slasher criada por Don Mancini. Os filmes se concentram principalmente em Chucky, um notório assassino em série que frequentemente escapa da morte realizando um ritual de vodu para transferir sua alma para um boneco "Good Guys".
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Chucky
Mark Hamill, Brad Dourif, Edan Gross, ...
Tiffany
Jennifer Tilly
Andy Barclay
Alex Vincent, Justin Whalin, Gabriel Bateman
Glen
Billy Boyd, Beans Balawi
Nica
Fiona Dourif, Anne Leveille
Kyle
Christine Elise
Miss Kettlewell
Beth Grant
Good Guy Doll
Edan Gross
Karen Barclay
Aubrey Plaza, Catherine Hicks
Detetive Mike Norris
Brian Tyree Henry, Chris Sarandon
Damien
Alexis Arquette
Kristin De Silva
Perrey Reeves
Dr. Foley
Michael Therriault
Pugg
Ty Consiglio
Falyn
Beatrice Kitsos
Barb
Danielle Bisutti, Kally Berard
Henry Kaslan
Tim Matheson
Nurse Ashley
Ali Tataryn
Sergeant Botnick
Andrew Robinson
Maggie Peterson
Dinah Manoff
Phil Simpson
Gerrit Graham
Joanne Simpson
Jenny Agutter
Colonel Cochrane
Dakin Matthews
Nurse Carlos
Zak Santiago
Eddie Caputo
Neil Giuntoli
Jack Santos
Tommy Swerdlow
Jade
Katherine Heigl
Tommy Doll
Edan Gross
Hailey Philips
Ana Ibarra
Tyler
Jeremy Sylvers
Chief Warren Kincaid
John Ritter
Dr. Ardmore
Jack Colvin
Whitehurst
Dean Jacobson
Doreen Norris
Carlease Burke
Psychs
Keith-Lee Castle
Motel Maid
Kathy Najimy
Human Glen
Jordan El-Balawi
Sarah
Chantal Quesnel
Human Glenda
Kristina Hewitt
Shelton
Travis Fine
Omar Norris
Marlon Kazadi
Senhor Criswell
Alan Wilder
Rick Spires
Adam Ryen
Sergeant Clark
Burke Byrnes
Laughing Puppeteer
Barnaby Harrison
Sgt. Frazier
Lois Foraker
Padre Frank
A Martinez
Officer Giguere
Tyhr Trubiak
Mom
Zahra Anderson
Ben
Ben Andrusco-Daon
Nica’s Father
Kyle Nobess
Direção
Lars Klevberg
1980
Don Mancini
25 de janeiro de 1963
Jack Bender
25 de setembro de 1949
Tom Holland
11 de julho de 1943
John Lafia
2 de abril de 1957
Ronny Yu
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hmm Sgt. Botnick time :/
#sergeant botnick time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#he is. weird. and creepy. i love him alright#liz says things#child's play 3#arnold bobinson#sgt botnick
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a white supremacist and Klansman.
A World War II veteran and college graduate, he became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to gain admission for African Americans to the state-supported public University of Mississippi. He also worked on voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society.
Evers was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and civil rights activity. As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests, as well as numerous works of art, music and film. All-white juries failed to reach verdicts in the first two trials of Beckwith. He was convicted in a new state trial in 1994, based on new evidence.
Myrlie Evers, widow of the activist, became a noted activist in her own right, serving as national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers was the first African-American mayor elected in Mississippi in the post-Reconstruction era when he won in 1969 in Fayette.
Early life
Evers was born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi, the third of the five children (including older brother Charles Evers) of Jesse (Wright) and James Evers. The family included Jesse's two children from a previous marriage. The Evers family owned a small farm, and James also worked at a sawmill. Evers walked twelve miles to attend segregated schools, and earned his high school diploma.
Evers served in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945. He was sent to the European Theater and he fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. After the end of the war, Evers was honorably discharged as a sergeant.
In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (a historically black college, now Alcorn State University) majoring in business administration. He also competed on the debate, football, and track teams, sang in the choir, and was junior class president. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1952.
On December 24, 1951, he married classmate Myrlie Beasley. Together they had three children: Darrell Kenyatta, Reena Denise, and James Van Dyke Evers.
Activism
The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi a town developed by African Americans, where Evers became a salesman for T. R. M. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company. Howard was also president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL); Evers helped organize the RCNL's boycott of gasoline stations that denied blacks the use of the stations' restrooms. Evers and his brother Charles also attended the RCNL's annual conferences in Mound Bayou between 1952 and 1954, which drew crowds of ten thousand or more.
In 1954, Evers applied to the segregated University of Mississippi Law School, but his application was rejected because of his race. He submitted his application in concert with the NAACP as a test case. That year the US Supreme Court had ruled that segregation of public schools (which included state universities) was unconstitutional.
On November 24, 1954, Evers was named the NAACP's first field secretary for Mississippi. In this position, he helped organize boycotts and set up new local chapters of the NAACP. He was involved with James Meredith's efforts to enroll in the University of Mississippi in the early 1960s. Evers also helped Dr. Gilbert Mason, Sr., organize the Biloxi wade-ins, protests against segregation of public beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In addition, Evers also helped integrate Jackson's privately owned buses and was trying to integrate the public parks, led voter registration drives, and used boycotts to integrate Leake County schools and the Mississippi State Fair.
Evers' civil rights leadership and investigative work made him a target of white supremacists. The White Citizens' Council was founded in Mississippi, with numerous local chapters, to resist integration of schools and civil rights goals. In the weeks before Evers' death, the leader encountered new levels of hostility. His public investigations into the 1955 lynching of teenaged Emmett Till and his vocal support of Clyde Kennard had made him a prominent black leader. On May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of his home. On June 7, 1963, Evers was nearly run down by a car after he emerged from the NAACP office in Jackson.
Assassination
Medgar Evers lived with the constant threat of death upon him, living in an area with a heavy Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist population in the areain which he both lived and advocated. The risk had grown so great in the time before his death that Evers and his wife Myrlie had trained their children on exactly what to do if their was a shooting, bombing, or other kind attack on their lives. Evers, who was regularly followed home by at least two FBI cars and one police car, arrived at his home on the morning of his death without an escort, with none of his usual protection for reasons unspecified by the FBI or local police. Many believe that many members of the police force at the time were members of the Klan.
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's nationally televised Civil Rights Address, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Evers family had worried for his safety the day of his assassination, and Evers himself had warned his wife that he felt himself in a greater danger than usual. When he arrived home, Evers' family was waiting for him, and his children exclaimed to his wife, Myrlie, that he had arrived. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go", Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; the bullet ripped through his heart. Initially thrown to the ground by the impact of the shot, Evers rose and staggered 30 feet (9.1 meters) before collapsing. His wife Myrlie was the first to find him outside of their front door. He was taken to the local hospital in Jackson, Mississippi where he was initially refused entry because of his race. His family explained who he was and he was admitted; he died in the hospital 50 minutes later. Evers was the first African American to be admitted to an all white hospital in Mississippi, an ironic final achievement for the dying activist.
After Evers was assassinated, an estimated 5,000 people marched from the Masonic Temple on Lynch Street to the Collins Funeral Home on North Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi. Allen Johnson, Reverend Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders led the procession. Outraged at the death of one of the most loved Mississippi civil rights leaders, the protests quickly got out of hand. The Mississippi police were prepared for the assault, with riot gear and rifles waiting for the protesters were they to turn violent. While tensions flared initially in the stand off, and in many similar ones around the state, leaders of the movement were able to reel in their followers and maintain a nonviolent atmosphere.
Mourned nationally, Evers was buried on June 19 in Arlington National Cemetery, where he received full military honors before a crowd of more than 3,000.
On June 21, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council (and later of the Ku Klux Klan), was arrested for Evers' murder. District Attorney and future governor Bill Waller prosecuted De La Beckwith. All-white juries twice that year - February and April 1964 - deadlocked on De La Beckwith's guilt and failed to reach a verdict. At the time, most blacks were disenfranchised by Mississippi's constitution and voter registration practices; this meant they were also excluded from juries, which were based on registered voters.
Myrlie Evers never gave up the fight for a conviction of her husbands murderer, and waited until a new judge had been assigned in the county before taking action to take her case against De La Beckwith back into the courtroom. In 1994, De La Beckwith was prosecuted by the state based on new evidence. Bobby DeLaughter was the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for an autopsy. De La Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for much of the three decades following the killing. (He had been imprisoned from 1977 to 1980 on separate charges: conspiring to murder A.I. Botnick.) In 1997,De La Beckwith appealed his conviction in the Evers' case, but the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld it. He later died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.
Legacy
Evers was memorialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1963, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the City University of New York.
Evers's widow, Myrlie Evers co-wrote the book For Us, the Living with William Peters in 1967. In 1983, a movie was made based on the book. Celebrating Evers's life and career, it starred Howard Rollins Jr. and Irene Cara as Medgar and Myrlie Evers, airing on PBS. The film won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Adapted Drama.
In 1969 a community pool in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle, WA was named after Evers, honoring his life.
On June 28, 1992, the city of Jackson, Mississippi, erected a statue in honor of Evers. All of Delta Drive (part of U.S. Highway 49) in Jackson was renamed in Evers' honor. In December 2004, the Jackson City Council changed the name of the city's airport to "Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport" (Jackson-Evers International Airport) in his honor.
His widow Myrlie Evers became a noted activist in her own right, eventually serving as chairperson of the NAACP. Medgar's brother Charles Evers returned to Jackson in July 1963 and served briefly with the NAACP in his slain brother's place. He remained involved in Mississippi civil rights activities for many years, was the first African-American mayor elected in the state in 1969, and resides in Jackson.
On the 40-year anniversary of Evers' assassination, hundreds of civil rights veterans, government officials, and students from across the country gathered around his grave site at Arlington National Cemetery to celebrate his life and legacy. Barry Bradford and three students—Sharmistha Dev, Jajah Wu and Debra Siegel, formerly of Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois—planned and hosted the commemoration in his honor. Evers was the subject of the students' research project.
In October 2009, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, announced that USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13), a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, would be named in the activist's honor. The ship was christened by Myrlie Evers-Williams on November 12, 2011.
In June 2013, a statue of Evers was erected at his alma mater, Alcorn State University, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. Alumni and guests from around the world gathered to recognize his contributions to American society.
Evers was honored in a tribute at Arlington National Cemetery on the 50th anniversary of his death. Former President Bill Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, Senator Roger Wicker and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous all spoke commemorating Evers. Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, spoke on his contributions to the advancement of civil rights:
"Medgar was a man who never wanted adoration, who never wanted to be in the limelight. He was a man who saw a job that needed to be done and he answered the call and the fight for freedom, dignity and justice not just for his people but all people."
He was identified as a Freedom hero by The My Hero Project.
In 2017, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers House was named as a National Historic Landmark.
In popular culture
Musician Bob Dylan wrote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about the assassination. Nina Simone wrote and sang "Mississippi Goddam" about the Evers case, and Phil Ochs wrote the songs "Another Country" and "Too Many Martyrs" (also titled "The Ballad Of Medgar Evers") in response to the killing. Matthew Jones and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers recorded the latter song. Eudora Welty's short story "Where is the Voice Coming From", in which the speaker is the imagined assassin of Medgar Evers, was published in The New Yorker in July 1963.
The film Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) directed by Rob Reiner, tells the story of the 1994 trial of Beckwith, in which prosecutor DeLaughter of the Hinds County District Attorney's office secured a conviction in state court. Beckwith and DeLaughter were played by James Woods and Alec Baldwin, respectively; Whoopi Goldberg played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed by James Pickens Jr. The film was based on a book of the same name.
Robert DeLaughter wrote a first-person narrative article entitled "Mississippi Justice" published in Reader's Digest, and a book, Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case (2001), based on his experiences.
Wadada Leo Smith's album Ten Freedom Summers contains a track called "Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice".
The 2016 documentary I am not your Negro describes the author James Baldwin's reaction to Evers' assassination.
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Andy Barclay Nirvana Playlist + Lyrics - Part 2
Tags: @silvershewolf247
1 - Heart Shaped Box
" I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black"
" Hey Wait I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice "
2 - In Bloom
( Since the chorus is ironical, I'm skipping it, but I do imagine this song reminds andy of chucky)
" Sell the kids for food Weather changes moods"
" We can have some more Nature is a whore Bruises on the fruit Tender age in bloom "
3 - Serve The Servants
" Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old "
" As my bones grew they did hurt They hurt really bad."
4 - Stain
" Well he never bleeds and he never fucks And he never leaves cuz he's got bad luck. Well he never reads and he never draws And he never sleeps cuz he's got bad blood yeah I'm a stain, I'm a stain, I'm a stain, I'm a stain "
5- Something In the Way
( taken ironically, this song makes me think of andy's time as a loner in the cabin with chucky as only company)
" Underneath the bridge Tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped Have all become my pets "
6 - The Man Who Sold The World ( I know this is a Bowie cover, but I'm counting it)
" We passed upon the stair We spoke of was and when Although I wasn't there He said I was his friend Which came as a surprise I spoke into his eyes I thought you died alone A long long time ago
Oh no, not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world
I laughed and shook hand And made my way back home I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed I gazed a gazeless stare We walked a million hills I must have died alone A long, long time ago "
7 - Son of a Gun ( The Vaselines cover)
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" Up, up, up, and down Turn, turn, turn around 'Round, 'round, 'round about And over again
Gun, gun, son of a gun You are the only one That makes any difference What I say
The sun shines in the bedroom When we play The raining always starts When you go away "
8 - Sliver
( no special lyric bond, except that it's a song describing a childhood anecdot about a kid feeling disturbed and distressed)
9 - Scoff
" In my eyes, I'm not lazy In my face, it's not over In your room, I'm not older In your eyes, I'm not worth it
Gimme back my alcohol "
10 - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
( In this song kurt connected self referencing lyrics with the story of an actress who suffered terrible abuses in a psychiatric hospital, shock therapy incluided. To me, this fits with Andy's depression mixed with his wish to avenge Karen and Nica )
" In her false witness I hope you're still with us To see if they float or drown Our favorite patient Display of patience Disease-covered Puget Sound She'll come back as fire To burn all the liars Leave a blanket of ash on the ground
I miss the comfort in being sad "
Bonus:
Floyd The Barber
( not a character song, but the barber creep thing reminds me of sergeant botnick from child's play 3 and I can imagine chucky referencing his murder to this)
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uh??? UM??!?!?!??
followers, it's been fun but I literally have no idea how to breathe anymore. goodbye
#listen somETIMES it feels like these movies look directly into my eyes and say 'fuck you '#@Sergeant Botnick please pull my hair and slit my throat I'm begging you#child's play#arnold bobinson#liz says things
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So. I've started Child's Play 3. I haven't seen any of the other movies and good lord I can tell Chucky's gonna bug the shit out of me.
However....
Andy's first scene.. opens with some of the most powerful close-up arm/hand porn I've ever seen in my life and I don't think I can handle this movie
#i was going 'oh god is that his arm? Is that-? That can't be his hand. Oh my goD'#I'm. Uh. Gonna die.#ALso I'm willing to bet Sergeant Botnick is gonna die too rip mustache man#liz says things
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a white supremacist and Klansman.
A World War II veteran and college graduate, he became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to gain admission for African Americans to the state-supported public University of Mississippi. He also worked on voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society.
Evers was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and civil rights activity. As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests, as well as numerous works of art, music and film. All-white juries failed to reach verdicts in the first two trials of Beckwith. He was convicted in a new state trial in 1994, based on new evidence.
Myrlie Evers, widow of the activist, became a noted activist in her own right, serving as national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers was the first African-American mayor elected in Mississippi in the post-Reconstruction era when he won in 1969 in Fayette.
Early life
Evers was born July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi, the third of the five children (including older brother Charles Evers) of Jesse (Wright) and James Evers. The family included Jesse's two children from a previous marriage. The Evers family owned a small farm, and James also worked at a sawmill. Evers walked twelve miles to attend segregated schools, and earned his high school diploma.
Evers served in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1945. He was sent to the European Theater and he fought in the Battle of Normandy in June 1944. After the end of the war, Evers was honorably discharged as a sergeant.
In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (a historically black college, now Alcorn State University) majoring in business administration. He also competed on the debate, football, and track teams, sang in the choir, and was junior class president. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1952.
On December 24, 1951, he married classmate Myrlie Beasley. Together they had three children: Darrell Kenyatta, Reena Denise, and James Van Dyke Evers.
Activism
The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi a town developed by African Americans, where Evers became a salesman for T. R. M. Howard's Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company. Howard was also president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL); Evers helped organize the RCNL's boycott of gasoline stations that denied blacks the use of the stations' restrooms. Evers and his brother Charles also attended the RCNL's annual conferences in Mound Bayou between 1952 and 1954, which drew crowds of ten thousand or more.
In 1954, Evers applied to the segregated University of Mississippi Law School, but his application was rejected because of his race. He submitted his application in concert with the NAACP as a test case. That year the US Supreme Court had ruled that segregation of public schools (which included state universities) was unconstitutional.
On November 24, 1954, Evers was named the NAACP's first field secretary for Mississippi. In this position, he helped organize boycotts and set up new local chapters of the NAACP. He was involved with James Meredith's efforts to enroll in the University of Mississippi in the early 1960s. Evers also helped Dr. Gilbert Mason, Sr., organize the Biloxi wade-ins, protests against segregation of public beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In addition, Evers also helped integrate Jackson's privately owned buses and was trying to integrate the public parks, led voter registration drives, and used boycotts to integrate Leake County schools and the Mississippi State Fair.
Evers' civil rights leadership and investigative work made him a target of white supremacists. The White Citizens' Council was founded in Mississippi, with numerous local chapters, to resist integration of schools and civil rights goals. In the weeks before Evers' death, the leader encountered new levels of hostility. His public investigations into the 1955 lynching of teenaged Emmett Till and his vocal support of Clyde Kennard had made him a prominent black leader. On May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of his home. On June 7, 1963, Evers was nearly run down by a car after he emerged from the NAACP office in Jackson.
Assassination
Medgar Evers lived with the constant threat of death upon him, living in an area with a heavy Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist population in the areain which he both lived and advocated. The risk had grown so great in the time before his death that Evers and his wife Myrlie had trained their children on exactly what to do if their was a shooting, bombing, or other kind attack on their lives. Evers, who was regularly followed home by at least two FBI cars and one police car, arrived at his home on the morning of his death without an escort, with none of his usual protection for reasons unspecified by the FBI or local police. Many believe that many members of the police force at the time were members of the Klan.
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's nationally televised Civil Rights Address, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Evers family had worried for his safety the day of his assassination, and Evers himself had warned his wife that he felt himself in a greater danger than usual. When he arrived home, Evers' family was waiting for him, and his children exclaimed to his wife, Myrlie, that he had arrived. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go", Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; the bullet ripped through his heart. Initially thrown to the ground by the impact of the shot, Evers rose and staggered 30 feet (9.1 meters) before collapsing. His wife Myrlie was the first to find him outside of their front door. He was taken to the local hospital in Jackson, Mississippi where he was initially refused entry because of his race. His family explained who he was and he was admitted; he died in the hospital 50 minutes later. Evers was the first African American to be admitted to an all white hospital in Mississippi, an ironic final achievement for the dying activist.
After Evers was assassinated, an estimated 5,000 people marched from the Masonic Temple on Lynch Street to the Collins Funeral Home on North Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi. Allen Johnson, Reverend Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders led the procession. Outraged at the death of one of the most loved Mississippi civil rights leaders, the protests quickly got out of hand. The Mississippi police were prepared for the assault, with riot gear and rifles waiting for the protesters were they to turn violent. While tensions flared initially in the stand off, and in many similar ones around the state, leaders of the movement were able to reel in their followers and maintain a nonviolent atmosphere.
Mourned nationally, Evers was buried on June 19 in Arlington National Cemetery, where he received full military honors before a crowd of more than 3,000.
On June 21, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council (and later of the Ku Klux Klan), was arrested for Evers' murder. District Attorney and future governor Bill Waller prosecuted De La Beckwith. All-white juries twice that year - February and April 1964 - deadlocked on De La Beckwith's guilt and failed to reach a verdict. At the time, most blacks were disenfranchised by Mississippi's constitution and voter registration practices; this meant they were also excluded from juries, which were based on registered voters.
Myrlie Evers never gave up the fight for a conviction of her husbands murderer, and waited until a new judge had been assigned in the county before taking action to take her case against De La Beckwith back into the courtroom. In 1994, De La Beckwith was prosecuted by the state based on new evidence. Bobby DeLaughter was the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for an autopsy. De La Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for much of the three decades following the killing. (He had been imprisoned from 1977 to 1980 on separate charges: conspiring to murder A.I. Botnick.) In 1997,De La Beckwith appealed his conviction in the Evers' case, but the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld it. He later died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.
Legacy
Evers was memorialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1963, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the City University of New York.
Evers's widow, Myrlie Evers co-wrote the book For Us, the Living with William Peters in 1967. In 1983, a movie was made based on the book. Celebrating Evers's life and career, it starred Howard Rollins Jr. and Irene Cara as Medgar and Myrlie Evers, airing on PBS. The film won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Adapted Drama.
In 1969 a community pool in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle, WA was named after Evers, honoring his life.
On June 28, 1992, the city of Jackson, Mississippi, erected a statue in honor of Evers. All of Delta Drive (part of U.S. Highway 49) in Jackson was renamed in Evers' honor. In December 2004, the Jackson City Council changed the name of the city's airport to "Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport" (Jackson-Evers International Airport) in his honor.
His widow Myrlie Evers became a noted activist in her own right, eventually serving as chairperson of the NAACP. Medgar's brother Charles Evers returned to Jackson in July 1963 and served briefly with the NAACP in his slain brother's place. He remained involved in Mississippi civil rights activities for many years, was the first African-American mayor elected in the state in 1969, and resides in Jackson.
On the 40-year anniversary of Evers' assassination, hundreds of civil rights veterans, government officials, and students from across the country gathered around his grave site at Arlington National Cemetery to celebrate his life and legacy. Barry Bradford and three students—Sharmistha Dev, Jajah Wu and Debra Siegel, formerly of Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois—planned and hosted the commemoration in his honor. Evers was the subject of the students' research project.
In October 2009, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, announced that USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13), a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, would be named in the activist's honor. The ship was christened by Myrlie Evers-Williams on November 12, 2011.
In June 2013, a statue of Evers was erected at his alma mater, Alcorn State University, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. Alumni and guests from around the world gathered to recognize his contributions to American society.
Evers was honored in a tribute at Arlington National Cemetery on the 50th anniversary of his death. Former President Bill Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, Senator Roger Wicker and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous all spoke commemorating Evers. Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, spoke on his contributions to the advancement of civil rights:
"Medgar was a man who never wanted adoration, who never wanted to be in the limelight. He was a man who saw a job that needed to be done and he answered the call and the fight for freedom, dignity and justice not just for his people but all people."
He was identified as a Freedom hero by The My Hero Project.
In 2017, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers House was named as a National Historic Landmark.
In popular culture
Musician Bob Dylan wrote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about the assassination. Nina Simone wrote and sang "Mississippi Goddam" about the Evers case, and Phil Ochs wrote the songs "Another Country" and "Too Many Martyrs" (also titled "The Ballad Of Medgar Evers") in response to the killing. Matthew Jones and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Singers recorded the latter song. Eudora Welty's short story "Where is the Voice Coming From", in which the speaker is the imagined assassin of Medgar Evers, was published in The New Yorker in July 1963.
The film Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) directed by Rob Reiner, tells the story of the 1994 trial of Beckwith, in which prosecutor DeLaughter of the Hinds County District Attorney's office secured a conviction in state court. Beckwith and DeLaughter were played by James Woods and Alec Baldwin, respectively; Whoopi Goldberg played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed by James Pickens Jr. The film was based on a book of the same name.
Robert DeLaughter wrote a first-person narrative article entitled "Mississippi Justice" published in Reader's Digest, and a book, Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case (2001), based on his experiences.
Wadada Leo Smith's album Ten Freedom Summers contains a track called "Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice".
The 2016 documentary I am not your Negro describes the author James Baldwin's reaction to Evers' assassination.
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