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DECATUR Evers exhibit opens at ECCC

Circuit Clerk Mike Butler and Walter Gardner look over a display at the Medgar Evers exhibit at East Central Community College Mon day.

small farm in Decatur, and a street near his homeplace carries his name today. The exhibit progresses through his time in the Army, the NAACP and ends with his murder outside his Jackson home. Evers attended school in Decatur, but at the time the town didn't have a high school that he could attend. So he walked with his brother Charles to a school in Newton. He would later go on to graduate from Alcorn State University. After fighting in WWil, Evers at tempted to vote at the courthouse in Decatur and was denied. That be came a catalyst that drove him to

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DECATUR-It likely would have been impossible for civil rights pio neer Medgar Evers to imagine his hometown honoring him one day. The very place where he was denied the right to vote now celebrates his triumphs and mourns his tragedies in an exhibit at East Central Com munity College. The Evers exhibit, "This is Home" "ill be on display through Nov. 21 in the Burton Memorial Library on the Decatur campus. The exhibit begins with an early photograph of Evers and an un named eirl. E\-er~ ~· up on a

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