From Normandy to Guynes Street

In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to Mississippi and discovered he still could not vote. So he began a second war — this time without a rifle. As NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Evers investigated the murder of Emmett Till, organized voter registration drives, and challenged segregation in Jackson's public facilities.…