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REFORMERS > civil rights leader > Medgar Evers
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I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car . . . If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.
Source: Medgar was assasinated in front of his home on 12 Jun 1963; In Before the Mayflower, by Lerone Bennett, Jr., 1982.
-- Medgar Evers, (Jul 2 1925-1963), US civil rights leader; He was shot to death in front of his home; became martyr for civil rights cause; awarded 1963 Spingarn Medal.