Medgar Evars, Civil Rights Leader I was a young teenager when civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, was assassinated, shot in the back, while returning home from a community meeting. Fifty years ago, today. His widow, Myrlye Evers-Williams, reflected on the event saying, “We are cursed as human beings with this element that’s called hatred, prejudice and racism,” said Evers-Williams, now 80. “But it is my belief that, as it was Medgar’s, that there is something good and decent in each and every one of us, and we have to call on that, and we have to find a way to work together.”( “Quoted in June 11, 2013 AP article”)
Today is also the birthday of Anne Frank, famous for her diary, discovered and published after she died in a Nazi concentration camp after surviving for two years in hiding along with members of her family during Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during WWII.
Both Evers and Frank believed that, as Anne Frank wrote, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart…I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness…and yet if I look up into the heavens I think that is will all come right…”
A call to faith. A call to action. A call to work each in our own way, for the common good.
Speak Your Mind