Medgar Evers, at the time of his assassination in 1963, was the Field Secretary for the Mississippi NAACP and, thus one of the leaders of the civil rights movement in that state. Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. Evers was inducted into the US Army in 1943 and served in Normandy the following year. After his discharge from the service, Evers enrolled at Alcorn College (now Alcorn State University).
While at Alcorn, he met his future wife, Myrlie Beasley of Vicksburg, and the following year they were married on December 24, 1951. After their graduation from Alcorn in 1952, they moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Evers worked at an insurance agency until 1954. While in Mound Bayou, Evers helped form local chapters of the NAACP in the predominantly African American Delta region of the state. His unsuccessful attempt in 1954 to attend the University of Mississippi Law School attracted national attention, especially since it came after the US Supreme Court decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional.
Evers soon worked full-time for the NAACP and moved to Jackson to run the statewide office. As state field secretary for the civil rights organization, he led a boycott of white Jackson merchants, who discriminated against black customers, and investigated racially motivated crimes against African Americans throughout the state. Evers also supported James Meredith’s successful effort to become the first African American to enter the University of Mississippi in 1962. Such high-profile leadership of the NAACP angered white supremacists throughout the state. He was assassinated outside his home in Jackson on June 12, 1963.
Black and white leaders from around the nation gathered in Jackson for Evers’s funeral. His brother, Charles, took over his position as state field secretary. Byron De La Beckwith stood trial twice in the 1960s for the assassination of Medgar Evers but was finally convicted in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison.
Evers’s legacy is ever-present in Mississippi. Ten years after his death, Mississippi had over 250,000 black voters (as opposed to 28,000 in 1963), 145 black elected officials, and African Americans were enrolled in each of the state’s public and private institutions of higher education.
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I had an idea to trick a gig app into paying more.
One of the variables Walmart Spark uses to determine pay is how long a trip is estimated to take, using Google Maps data to estimate driving time.
I've noticed that on Saturdays Google maps wants to reroute me around a particular section of street in my town, even though it's by far the fastest route. On Saturdays various groups are allowed to collect donations on the town common, which is on that road.
I realized that is making Google maps think there is heavy traffic, because drivers end up pulling over briefly to give the donations, but they never pick up their phones or leave the car.
My idea is to do that, but along the one road that leads from Walmart into town. I could buy 20 cheap phones and have someone slowly creep back and forth along that road, causing Maps to think it takes 30 minutes each way, thus driving up the pay.
I won't actually do it because the increased pay wouldn't offset the cost of 20 phones and service, but it's a fun idea.
I wonder if running a bunch of android emulators with spoofed GPS locations would work. This might be worth looking into.
My guess is that they wouldn't use data from a device that doesn't pass safetynet. I don't think any emulator does. I guess it would be easy enough to check.
rc car with 20 phones strapped to it, all on single wifi
That's a great idea. Could make it autonomous by using the phones gps and data connection. Basically a drone rc car
i think i saw some shit like this around delivery apps (in india maybe?), some shenanigans with tons of cheapo phones to do something (or make surge pricing for ubereats?) can't remember what exactly
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/03/berlin-artist-uses-99-phones-trick-google-maps-traffic-jam-alert