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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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[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hate a "this is a psyop" "this is a distraction " mother fucker. First of all they don't need to do distractions, they just do shit and nobody stops it. Second it's lazy thinking, why would the gov invest in this ? To pass the legislation that they already pass without you?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

The biggest psyop of all time is the system that allows mediocre white dudes to speak their minds like that and think they're some kind of philosopher for it.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Before I was vegan, I did meatless Mondays.

And after doing it for a while, and a challenge vegan week, it was really odd to see that for most people literally every meal MUST have animal protein if not secondary animal products. In the history of humanity, its actually quite unusual that every meal we eat must have meat. Its not something I noticed before! I remember cooking for my mom once, and she was upset that I served her a vegetarian dish. She couldnt comprehend that that was the whole meal lol, because you HAVE to have meat as well in the standard western meal she thought I was being lazy.

[–] LocalMaxima@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I’ve heard people saying that if a food doesn’t contain meat it’s just a snack, not a meal

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I eat meat but it still blows my mind people will just eat a steak or pork chop as the center of their meal.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine this but for Hexbear comments

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Apple was forced to update the youtube video announcing their new UI due to thumbnail issues.

[–] largerfather@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

youtube should move the play button every time apple changes the cover

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How I made $2000 a week driving for Uber

They worked for 80 hours per week. That is always the answer.

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[–] Starwalker@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These cops are Pissing me off. . .

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

That's interesting cause Im... pissing ON these cops

[–] Starwalker@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

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[–] Cigarette_comedian@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ahelp I bought Balatro today and I cannot let go of the cards I must acquire jonklers and open jumbo arcana packs until I collapse from exhaustion nope

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Very addictive game, I should play it again…

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Watched a 1m30s yuri advertisement for an AI enabled toothbrush

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

The year is 2027. Borat impressions are punishaeable by death. The last man to talk about his wife was drawn and quartered IN the streets. This is not a fiction. This is where we're headed if we dont ACT NOW

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guy whose reponse towards "america has only fictional heroes like spongebob" is "hell yeah brother Spongebob Squarepants is a true Hero"

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People only believe in echo chambers because they are in a media environment where they are completely insulated from the view that they don't actually exist

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Set that contains all sets that don't contain themselves

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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Im sorry for my outbirst earlier :(


[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if it's true, though? I kinda am one. :-\

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[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

LLMs are now inching up closer to the actual cost to run things:

https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1932544842405720540

[–] miz@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

"I got ripped off and I want everyone to know about it", the tweet

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Look sweaty you might not realize it but if you want a "hello world" first you have to generate the world!

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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any ways to become a productive decently paid member of society and as such worthy of romantic love when you are thirty and have no marketable skills whatsoever

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

God damn dude, Windows 11 just constantly fails to do basic functions. My fuckin' sound settings won't open right now. I turn the volume control on my headset and the volume does go up and down, but the actual volume number on the screen isn't changing, the UI is just stuck at 98/100, and I'm trying to open the settings but it just... doesn't open. The next thing to try is restarting, but I'm so fucking tired of having to restart this PC because of shit like this that I just can't be bothered right now.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Had a dream accidentally I uploaded a video of myself getting into the shower to TankieTube and then (also accidentally) linked to it on Hexbear as a hotlink to an unrelated comment.

I wouldn't have known, except somebody commented "what a look!" which then made me feel self-conscious haha

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Post hog becomes post bod 🤔🤯🔮

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After eating wasabi I surely won’t forget to not touch my eyes before washing my hands clueless

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Conquering nomad lands in CK2 is such a slog... Took most of Mongolia with a Muslim invasion CB and now I have to administer the largest public works and construction program the medieval world has ever seen just to hold onto it

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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Going out of my way to point out a mistake someone made at work so it doesn't bite us in the ass later and then getting 10 follow up questions that amount "to are you sure it's wrong and not you just being wrong?" Over and over. Yes motherfucker just trust me have I ever let you down?

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[–] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Today I randomly stumbled on a website which I guess was made by one of the members of my father's step-family because it has a family tree from the amerikkka-ukkk side of my family going as far as the 17th century for my step-family, and up to the 19th century for my biological family. It's a bit out of date in some places (I am not on the website, for example), but it's still pretty interesting, especially since the people on there that I actually know/knew personally can be counted on the fingers of one hand (as opposed to the albania-yugoslavia side of the family, which I am much closer to).

I also found a jpg of a family-tree (only including the male line(s) though) of the albania side of my family going back 12 generations yesterday on a very old website I had never heard of before, so that's cool too.

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Edit: nvm, dont look into it. It's an infohazard.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
Edit: nvm, dont look into it. It's an infohazard.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

When youre doing some errands before work and you hear a song you usually only hear at work out in public. Some construction site has that song where the chorus is taken from Rocket Man but it's like some kinda dance song. Not a fan and I hear it like 40 times a week at work

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I kinda wanna learn to merengue so i can cosplay as Lore Accurate Ganondorf this Halloween but also i'm not good at dancing and i'm realizing now if i used any make up id look like i'm doing blackface so that's probably a no go there folks, a dream lost as quickly as it was formed

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[–] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

watching old vanderpump

smh can't believe they pitted the two trans girls (Billie and Lala) against each other

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I made a very minor electrical oopsie last night, I mislabeled a power adapter and it destroyed a cheapo thing I got off Amazon like 5 years ago. The burned smell was really strong so I was like scared but the adapter itself was less than 1A so I feel it wasn’t a huge electrocution or fire risk lol.

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