Medgar Evers  1925-1963

A civil rights leader and veteran, Medgar Evers began his advocacy after being turned away from voting in a local election at gunpoint, despite having just returned to America from fighting in the Battle of Normandy in World War II.  He spoke out against racism in the deeply divided south, fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched investigations into the Emmett Till lynching and framing of Clyde Kennard.  He was murdered by white supremacists just hours after John F. Kennedy’s televised speech in support of civil rights.  

Bachman's Sparrow populations have declined by 76% between 1970 and 2014. If current rates of decline continue, Bachman's Sparrows will lose another half of their remaining population by 2040.