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Protesting to Demand Rights

Question 3 • TX-US History Studies Since 1877 B-Runnels

The Ku Klux Klan murdered Medgar Evers in 1963 because he

Answer

A

enrolled in full-time classes at the University of Mississippi.

B

argued before the Supreme Court to integrate public schools.

C

wrote a letter from a Birmingham jail calling for a peaceful protest.

D

led the effort to get more African Americans to register to vote.

Explanation

Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader in Mississippi and worked to increase African American voter registration. His activism challenged segregation and white supremacy, making him a target of the Ku Klux Klan. The other choices describe actions associated with James Meredith, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr., not Evers.

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