Post by Kevin Powell in NewsOne Original on Jan 4, 2011 at 4:17 pm
“You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.”—MEDGAR EVERS
(NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi murdered by Ku Klux Klan in 1963)
And, no doubt, Medgar Evers must be tossing and turning in his grave at Arlington National Cemetery this very moment. For how terrible is it that a college named in his honor is in the midst of the ugliest chapter of its long history, a history born of the sweat, and the blood, of the Civil Rights Movement?
“You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.”—MEDGAR EVERS
(NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi murdered by Ku Klux Klan in 1963)
And, no doubt, Medgar Evers must be tossing and turning in his grave at Arlington National Cemetery this very moment. For how terrible is it that a college named in his honor is in the midst of the ugliest chapter of its long history, a history born of the sweat, and the blood, of the Civil Rights Movement?
