Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

James Pickens Jr.: Medgar Evers

Quotes 

• Medgar Evers : [archive footage]  I love the land of my birth. I do not mean just America as a country, but Mississippi, the state in which I was born.

• Medgar Evers : [archive footage]  In the horrific deaths of Emmett Till, Reverend G.W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and a variety of other atrocities, no one has been convicted. And we feel that those guilty of having committed these ungodly acts have the feeling of assurance that nothing ever would be done. For you see, ladies and gentlemen, white juries have yet to convict a white man in Mississippi guilty of a crime against a Negro.