A civil rights activist who was shot and killed because of his efforts to register African American voters was

Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who worked to register African American voters in Mississippi. He was shot and killed outside his home in 1963. James Meredith survived an assassination attempt, President Kennedy was killed for different reasons, and Eugene “Bull” Connor was a segregationist official, not the activist described.

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