Thirty-One Years of Keeping Faith

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his car in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, arms full of NAACP T-shirts reading "Jim Crow Must Go." A rifle bullet struck him in the back. His wife Myrlie rushed outside and found him crawling toward the front door. He died at a nearby hospital less than an hour later.…