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42ยข Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer, 2009
The March on Washington occurred between two infamous civil rights crimes.NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi two months before the March; less than a month afterward, four young girls died in a bombing Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street Baptist Church. This cover contained a letter of condolence to Myrlie Evers-Williams, who later became chairman of the NAACP. |