Medgar Evers and Roy Wilkins
Object Details
- Artist
- Unidentified Artist
- Sitter
- Roy Wilkins, 30 Aug 1901 - Sep 1981
- Medgar Evers, 1925 - 1963
- Exhibition Label
- Roy Wilkins (1901–1981), Born St. Louis, Missouri
- Medgar Evers (1925–1963), Born Decatur, Mississippi
- Medgar Evers (center right) played a critical role in organizing and sustaining the Jackson Movement--a multifaceted campaign to end segregation in Mississippi’s most populous city. In the spring of 1963, Evers launched a boycott of stores in Jackson’s main shopping district after the mayor rejected an NAACP-sponsored resolution calling for fair hiring practices in municipal jobs, desegregation of public facilities and accommodations, an end to discriminatory business practices, and the establishment of a biracial committee to combat injustice and promote reform. When NAACP national secretary Roy Wilkins (center left) joined Evers in picketing the F. W. Woolworth store in downtown Jackson, local police brandishing electric cattle prods swiftly arrested both men. This press photograph documenting the arrest appeared in the New York Times on June 2, 1963--just ten days before a white supremacist assassinated Evers.
- Roy Wilkins (1901–1981), Nacido en St. Louis, Missouri
- Medgar Evers (1925–1963), Nacido en Decatur, Mississippi
- Medgar Evers (centro a la derecha) desempeñó un papel fundamental en la organización y el manteni- miento del Movimiento Jackson, una campaña multi- facética que buscaba poner fin a la segregación en la ciudad más poblada de Mississippi. En la primavera de 1963, Evers lanzó un boicot a las tiendas del principal distrito comercial de Jackson después de que el alcalde de la ciudad rechazara la resolución patrocinada por la NAACP que exigía prácticas de contratación justas en empleos municipales, desegregación de las instalaciones y los alojamientos públicos, el fin de las prácticas comerciales discrimi- natorias y el establecimiento de un comité birracial para combatir la injusticia y promover la reforma. Cuando el secretario nacional de la NAACP Roy Wilkins (centro a la izquierda) se unió a Evers en el piquete de la tienda F. W. Woolworth en el centro de Jackson, la policía, blandiendo picanas eléctricas, los arrestó a ambos rápidamente. Esta fotografía de prensa, que documenta el arresto, se publicó en el New York Times el 2 de junio de 1963, tan sólo diez días antes del asesinato de Evers por parte de un supremacista blanco.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- 1963
- Object number
- NPG.2001.81
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Getty Images
- Type
- Photograph
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.4 x 24.2cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/2")
- Sheet: 20.7 x 25.4cm (8 1/8 x 10")
- Mat: 35.6 x 45.7cm (14 x 18")
- Place
- United States\Mississippi\Jackson
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Costume\Headgear\Hat
- Weapon\Gun
- Equipment\Sign
- Vehicle\Automobile
- Exterior\Street
- Roy Wilkins: Male
- Roy Wilkins: Arts & Culture\Journalism and Media\Magazine editor
- Roy Wilkins: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Civil rights leader
- Roy Wilkins: Arts & Culture\Journalism and Media\Journalist\Editorial writer
- Roy Wilkins: Civilian awards\Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Roy Wilkins: Civilian awards\Congressional Gold Medal
- Medgar Evers: Male
- Medgar Evers: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Civil rights leader
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2001.81
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d76e6153-e0fa-4a45-92fa-ae325dc509e4
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