Editing Medgar Evers (section)

=== Aftermath ===
After Evers was assassinated, an estimated 5,000 people marched from the Masonic Temple on Lynch Street to the Collins Funeral Home on North Farish Street in Jackson. [[Allen Johnson (activist)|Allen Johnson]], [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], and other civil rights leaders led the procession.<ref name="shall">{{cite book|last1=O'Brien|first1=M. J.|title=We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired|year=2013|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|page=118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3yuLj3OySpYC&q=%22reverend+allen+johnson%22&pg=PA118-IA14|access-date=September 7, 2015|isbn=978-1617037436|archive-date=June 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620023530/https://books.google.com/books?id=3yuLj3OySpYC&q=%22reverend+allen+johnson%22&pg=PA118-IA14|url-status=live}}</ref> The Mississippi police came to the non-violent protest armed with riot gear and rifles. While tensions were initially high in the stand-off between police and marchers, both in Jackson and in many similar marches around the state, leaders of the movement maintained non-violence among their followers.<ref name=":1" />