order that Farrakhan could prove his loyalty to the leader of the Nation of Islam.
Here is where the contrasts seem the greatest between these two men. Medgar Evers was born and raised in the rural south, daily facing the most extreme segregation and oppression. The thing that probably got Medgar Evers killed, although he might have gotten killed without it, was his association with the NAACP. Medgar Evers was chosen to be the first field secretary of the NAACP for the State of Mississippi, a vital and extremely dangerous position. As Vollers (1995) said, it was a position that was very difficult to fill, beca
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