and, today, it is you know, theodore bilbo, has been lost to history. he doesn't loom in our history anymore. who does loom in our history today, is medgar evers. >> [ applause ] >> medgar evers ' strategic mind, and his bravery, are a story of her was a man bravery that echoes through the generations. we remember him for his work as field secretary, mississippi field secretary of the naacp, remember him for his moderate him martyred him, his assassination, and the moment he came back from world war two. he had been discharged by the army, he was being sent home to mississippi. on the bus home from his army service in europe, fighting against the nazis, he was beaten, set upon, beaten to within an inch of his life, because he refused to move to the back of the bus when he was ordered to do so. he was wearing his u.s. uniform at the time she received that meeting. as a veteran, registering to vote trying to vote, stand up against bilbo's terroristic claim to that seat, joy writes the early fight in mississippi branded both medgar evers and his older brot