Today would have been the 84th birthday of Civil Rights organizer Medgar Evers, had he not been murdered in 1963.
Evers was a black World War II veteran and a college graduate who sold insurance throughout rural Mississippi. He made headlines in 1954 when he tried to get into the University of Mississippi Law School at a time when segregation was strictly enforced.
And he was shot in the back outside his home for his very public work for the legal rights of African Americans.