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"Artikel ini membahas peran Medgar Evers dalam Jackson Movement. Jackson Movement adalah gerakan sosial yang bertujuan untuk menghapus hukum Jim Crow di Mississippi, salah satu caranya adalah dengan melakukan pemboikotan toko yang melakukan praktik segregasi dan Sit-in. Beberapa karya telah membahas peristiwa ini, namun penelitian ini memberikan sudut pandang baru yaitu peranan Medgar Evers sebagai tokoh sentral dan terkemuka dari Jackson Movement dan pembahasan yang terfokus pada Mississippi.. Medgar Evers merupakan tokoh sentral karena ia adalah Sekretaris Lapangan NAACP di Mississippi sekaligus yang juga sering diliput dalam media nasional dan vokal atas tanggapan mengenai Jackson Movement. keterlibatan Medgar Evers mengakibatkan kematiannya ditangan ekstremis kulit putih. Penelitian bermaksud melengkapi penelitian yang telah ada mengenai Civil Rights Movement pada tahun 1954-1963. Topik bahasan mengenai peran Medgar dalam gerakan hak sipil pada saat itu belum banyak dibahas karena penelitian sebelumnya umumnya terfokus pada gerakan hak sipil dalam skala nasional. Tidak banyak yang membahas dari sudut pandang lokal, terutama Mississippi. Hasil penelitian adalah Medgar Evers menjadi tokoh kuat yang membuat Jackson Movement tetap berjalan untuk melawan Jim Crow dan Gerakan ini sendiri menjadi pemicu dihapuskannya hukum segregasi di Mississippi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode sejarah yang terdiri dari 4 tahapan berupa heuristik, kritik sumber, interpretasi dan historiografi. Sumber yang digunakan adalah autobiografi Medgar Evers, surat kabar, berbagai buku dan jurnal penelitian yang diperoleh secara daring.

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This article examines the role of Medgar Evers in the Jackson Movement. The Jackson Movement is a social movement that aims to abolish the Jim Crow law in Mississippi, one of the ways is by boycotting stores that practice segregation and Sit-ins. Several works have discussed this event, but this research provides a new perspective, namely the role of Medgar Evers as a central and prominent figure of the Jackson Movement and a discussion focused on Mississippi. Medgar Evers is a central figure because he is the NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi as well as frequent coverage in the national media and vocal in response to the Jackson Movement. Medgar Evers' involvement resulted in his death at the hands of white extremists. This research intends to complement existing research on the Civil Rights Movement in 1954-1963. The topic of discussion about Medgar's role in the civil rights movement at that time had not been widely discussed because previous research had generally focused on the civil rights movement on a national scale. Not much is covered from a local point of view, especially Mississippi. The result of the research is that Medgar Evers became a strong figure who kept the Jackson Movement running against Jim Crow and this movement itself became the trigger for the abolition of the segregation law in Mississippi. This study uses the historical method which consists of 4 stages in the form of heuristics, source criticism, interpretation and historiography. The sources used are Medgar Evers' autobiography, newspapers, various books and research journals obtained online."

"What can the small Mt. Zion methodist church in rural Mississippi teach us about the American dilemma over race? Quite a lot, it turns out. Founded by reconstruction methodists in 1879, Mt. Zion would later endure decades of harsh control by the white supremacist state. Segregated by Jim Crow laws and attitudes, Mt. Zion was also separated from its parent religious body, the Methodist denomination, between 1939 and 1968, as white Methodists created the segregated Central Jurisdiction for its black members: the move appeared as church-mandated Jim Crow. Mt. Zion survived the attacks by the state, and the benign neglect of the Methodists, maintaining its belief in an inclusive society by hosting the civil rights workers of freedom summer, who planned a school for black voters at the church. The church was drawn into the Klan conspiracy that included the murder of the three civil rights workers, the burning of Mt. Zion, and the beating of some of its members. Instead of grieving, the members of Mt. Zion began an annual ceremony that commemorated the death of the three and their mission to advance black rights, especially voting. The commemorative service is now an integral part of state and local efforts to create something new in this very red state, an alternate Mississippi that is inclusive, modern, and open."