Medger Evers office as NAACP organizer was Number 10 on the second floor of this building, which still houses NAACP offices. After his assassination, his funeral procession started here and mourners carried his body legally in silence to the funeral home. After leaving their beloved slaughtered leader at the funeral home, the crowd marched on toward down town and began singing freedom songs and chanting "We want the killers." Police moved to confront the marchers and violence was averted only when federal official John Doar stepped between marchers and police and pleaded "Medger wouldn't want this".
Where did the Masons stand on civil rights?
ReplyDeleteI think the Masons had to be white Protestant males. i was surprised that the NAACP offic was and still is in the Masonic building, but so it is.
ReplyDeleteBob just googled Free Masons and learned that they have been and are very diverse on the issue of race, segregationists to civil rights leaders.
ReplyDeleteI wonder of Medgar achieved more with his death than he had with his life. Sad, but so often this happens.
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