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I. Artifact Name
Rock from Evers' Grave in Arlington

III. Event Represented by the Artifact/Significance
The burial place of Medgar Evers, an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith on June 12, 1963. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetary on June 19, 1963. Some of Evers' Jewish Civil Rights colleagues placed rocks on Evers' headstone in keeping with Jewish tradition to memorialize his burial place and as a sign of respect and remembrance. Many of the Civil Rights activists of the 1960s were Jewish and contributed a great deal to the Civil Rights movement such as Andrew Goodman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Goodman) and Mickey Schwerner (http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Schwerner).

IV. Date and Place
June 19, 1963 at Arlington National Cemetary

V. Multimedia Found on the Internet
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/evers_crush2.mp3 http://youtube.

Smithsonian Institute profile of Medgar Evers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p556_c5CI9c

VII. Map
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mrp-map.htm

VIII. Curators
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