In the 1960s, two prominent civil rights leaders were assassinated:
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Medgar Evers - Evers was a civil rights activist and the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. He was assassinated on June 12, 1963, outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Martin Luther King Jr. - King was a key leader in the American civil rights movement, advocating for nonviolent protest against racial segregation and discrimination. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Both of these leaders made significant contributions to the struggle for civil rights and their deaths had a profound impact on the movement.