Southern Poverty Law Center: Civil Rights Memorial Commemorates 30 Years
November 01, 2019
November 01, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Nov. 1 -- Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following news:
Carolyn Wells Gee was in bed watching TV with her younger sister when she heard the shot that killed Medgar Evers.
Gee, 71, who still lives in the Jackson, Mississippi, house next door to where the civil rights martyr was slain by Klansmen, was a high school student on June 12, 1963, when the shot rang out late at night.
"I looked out the window and I could see, he [h . . .
Carolyn Wells Gee was in bed watching TV with her younger sister when she heard the shot that killed Medgar Evers.
Gee, 71, who still lives in the Jackson, Mississippi, house next door to where the civil rights martyr was slain by Klansmen, was a high school student on June 12, 1963, when the shot rang out late at night.
"I looked out the window and I could see, he [h . . .