Example sentences for: medgar

How can you use “medgar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The files are believed to provide material for lawsuits against the state and also for the reopening of long-dormant cases of crimes against civil rights workers, along the lines of the long-delayed but finally successful prosecution of the man who murdered Medgar Evers.

  • The remarkable work on civil rights done by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department bore a distinctly Republican stamp: John Doar, a celebrated member of that team--who single-handedly stopped an incipient riot at Medgar Evars' funeral by stepping into an angry crowd and yelling, "Anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!"

  • Celebrities exhumed in the 1990s include Czar Nicholas II, outlaw Jesse James, civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, and President Zachary Taylor.

  • And yet, there were also appalling setbacks: NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated.

  • Previous recipients of the law school's Public Service Award are other UM law alumni: Forest attorney Constance Slaughter-Harvey; Luther Ott, formerly director of Stewpot Community Services in Jackson; and Bobby DeLaughter, the former district attorney who spearheaded the prosecution of Medgar Evers' assassin Byron De La Beckwith.


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