Editing Medgar Evers (section)

== In popular culture ==
=== Music ===
Musician [[Bob Dylan]] wrote his song "[[Only a Pawn in Their Game]]" about the assassination on July 2, 1963, on what would have been Evers' 38th birthday. [[Nina Simone]] wrote and sang "[[Mississippi Goddam]]" about the Evers case. [[Phil Ochs]] referred to Evers in the song "[[Love Me, I'm a Liberal]]" and wrote the songs "Another Country" and "Too Many Martyrs" (also titled "The Ballad of Medgar Evers") in response to the killing. [[Malvina Reynolds]] referenced Evers's murder in her song, "It Isn't Nice". [[Matthew Jones (activist)|Matthew Jones]] and the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] [[Freedom Singers]] recorded a version of the latter song.<ref name="NAACP">{{cite web|url=http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-medgar-evers|title=NAACP Evers biography|publisher=Naacp.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004234230/http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-medgar-evers|archive-date=October 4, 2013|access-date=June 13, 2013}}</ref> [[Wadada Leo Smith]]'s album ''[[Ten Freedom Summers]]'' contains a track called "Medgar Evers: A Love-Voice of a Thousand Years' Journey for Liberty and Justice".<ref>{{cite web|title=Ten Freedom Summers|url=https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ten-freedom-summers-2|publisher=Cuneiform Records|access-date=May 28, 2015|archive-date=May 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529040150/https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ten-freedom-summers-2|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jackson C. Frank]]'s self-titled [[Jackson C. Frank (album)|debut album]], released in 1965, also includes a reference to Medgar Evers in the song "Don't Look Back".<ref>{{cite web|title=Retrospective Reviews II: Jackson C. Frank|date=November 16, 2016|url=https://isismagazine.org.uk/2016/11/retrospective-reviews-ii-jackson-c-frank/|publisher=Isis Magazine|access-date=June 30, 2020|archive-date=June 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630191559/https://isismagazine.org.uk/2016/11/retrospective-reviews-ii-jackson-c-frank/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Essays and books ===
[[Eudora Welty]]'s short story, "Where Is the Voice Coming From?", in which the speaker is the imagined assassin of Medgar Evers, was published in ''The New Yorker'' in July 1963.<ref>[[Eudora Welty]], [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1963/07/06/1963_07_06_024_TNY_CARDS_000277124 "Where Is The Voice Coming From?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325002056/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1963/07/06/1963_07_06_024_TNY_CARDS_000277124 |date=March 25, 2013 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', July 6, 1963.</ref>

Attorney [[Bobby DeLaughter]] wrote a first-person narrative article entitled "Mississippi Justice" published in ''Reader's Digest'' about his experiences as state prosecutor in the murder trial. He added to this account in a book, ''Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case'' (2001).<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Never-Too-Late/Bobby-Delaughter/9780743223393 |title=Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case |publisher=New York: Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0743223393 |access-date=June 13, 2013 |year=2001 |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403103125/http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Never-Too-Late/Bobby-Delaughter/9780743223393 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In ''Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gwin |first1=Minrose |title=Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement by Minrose Gwin |date=2013 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |location=Athens |isbn=9780820335643 |pages=232 |url=https://ugapress.org/book/9780820335643/remembering-medgar-evers/ |access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref> [[Minrose Gwin]], then the Kenan Eminent Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coeditor of ''The Literature of the American South'' and the ''Southern Literary Journal'', looked at the body of artistic work inspired by Evers' life and death—fiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and songs from James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, Lucille Clifton, Bob Dylan, and Willie Morris, among others.

=== Film ===
Evers was portrayed by [[Howard Rollins]] in the 1983 television film ''[[For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kaltenbach|first=Chris|title=Actor Rollins dies Appreciation: Baltimore native earned acclaim for dramatic film, stage performances.|date=December 10, 1996|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-12-10-1996345155-story.html|access-date=July 6, 2019|archive-date=July 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706231359/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-12-10-1996345155-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The 1996 film ''[[Ghosts of Mississippi]]'', directed by [[Rob Reiner]], explores the 1994 trial of De La Beckwith in which prosecutor DeLaughter of the Hinds County [[District attorney|District Attorney's]] office secured a conviction in state court. Beckwith and DeLaughter were played by [[James Woods]] and [[Alec Baldwin]], respectively, with [[Whoopi Goldberg]] as Myrlie Evers. Medgar was portrayed by [[James Pickens Jr.]] The film was based on a book of the same name.<ref name="Vollers1995">{{cite book|last=Vollers|first=Maryanne|author-link=Maryanne Vollers|title=Ghosts of Mississippi: the murder of Medgar Evers, the trials of Byron de la Beckwith and the haunting of the new South|url=https://archive.org/details/ghostsofmississi00voll|url-access=registration|access-date=September 12, 2011|date= 1995|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=978-0-316-91485-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Biography of Bobby B. DeLaughter |url=http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/bobby-delaughter.html |year=2002 |access-date=September 29, 2011 |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004170659/http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/bobby-delaughter.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the documentary film ''[[I Am Not Your Negro]]'' (2016), Evers is one of three Black activists (the other two are [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and [[Malcolm X]]) who are the focus of reminiscences by author [[James Baldwin]], who recounts the circumstances of and his reaction to Evers' assassination.<ref>Young, Deborah (September 20, 2016). [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/i-am-not-your-negro-931087 "‘I Am Not Your Negro’: Film Review | TIFF 2016"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204172708/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/i-am-not-your-negro-931087 |date=December 4, 2017 }}. ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''.</ref>

In the 2011 film ''[[The Help (film)|The Help]]'', a clip of Evers speaking for civil rights is shown on TV, quickly followed by news of his assassination, and a glimpse of an article by his widow published in ''Life'' magazine.<ref>{{Citation|last=16 WAPT News Jackson|title=Evers On The Help|date=February 24, 2012|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJhwSA5RlOs&app=desktop|access-date=May 26, 2019|archive-date=June 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620023539/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJhwSA5RlOs&app=desktop|url-status=live}}</ref>

The 2020 documentary film "The Evers" features interviews with his surviving family members.<ref>{{Citation|last=The Evers|title=The Evers|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17014922/}}</ref>

The 2022 film ''[[Till (film)|Till]]'' depicts Evers (played by [[Tosin Cole]]) assisting [[Mamie Till|Mamie Till-Bradley]] ([[Danielle Deadwyler]]) seek justice for the murder of her son, [[Emmett Till]] ([[Jalyn Hall]]).

=== Television ===

A 2021 episode of Extra History from ''[[Extra Credits]]'' talks about Evers, his activism, and assassination.<ref>{{cite web|date=March 27, 2021|title=The Assassination of Medgar Evers – A Hero Silenced|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eWg17KSXEU|access-date=March 28, 2021|website=YouTube|archive-date=March 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327194450/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eWg17KSXEU|url-status=live}}</ref>