Triumphs:
--While at Alcorn [College], he was a member of the debate team, the college choir, and the football and track teams, and he also held several student offices and was editor of the campus newspaper for two years and the annual for one year. In recognition of his accomplishments at Alcorn, he was listed in Who鈥檚 Who in American Colleges.
--Established local chapters of the NAACP throughout the Delta and organized boycotts of gasoline stations that refused to allow blacks to use their restrooms.
--. His boycott of Jackson merchants in the early 1960s attracted national attention, and his efforts to have James Meredith admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962 brought much-needed federal help for which he had been soliciting. Meredith was admitted to Ole Miss, a major step in securing civil rights in the state...[struggle: but an ensuing riot on campus left two people dead, and Evers鈥?involvement in this and other activities increased the hatred many people felt toward Evers.]
Struggles
--. He worked in Mound Bayou as an insurance agent until 1954, the year a Supreme Court decision ruled school segregation unconstitutional. Despite the court鈥檚 ruling, Evers applied for and was denied admission to the University of Mississippi Law School
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