Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week, Sister Lotus, a groundbreaking Chinese social media star.

She is just a rather ordinary woman without any particular talent and singing, dancing or anything.

But the way she dressed made an impression on people.

Plus, yoga with Yehudi Menouin and BKS Ayeenga, an eyewitness to an iconic killing on the streets of Tehran, and Carl Gustav Jung, one of the greats of psychoanalysis

contemplating the end.

Of course, it's quite obvious that we are all going to die,

and this is the sad finale of everything but nevertheless

there is something in us that doesn't believe it.

That's all coming up later in the podcast but But we begin with a death in June 1963, which had a profound impact on the arguments over civil rights in America.

For this, we're going to the deep south to recall the murder of the African American activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi.

He was a local representative for the N-W-A-C-P, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, working to overturn the racist

policies of that state.

He would eventually be buried with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery,

but as Fahanahyther reports, in life, Medgar Evers knew that his work

made him a target for violent white supremacists.

I've had a number of threatening calls, people calling me saying that they were going to kill me,

saying that they were going to blow my home up and saying that I only had a few hours to live. I said, well, whenever my time

comes, I'm ready. The murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963 shook the American Civil Rights Movement.

Medgar Evers was Mississippi Field Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of

colored people.

Oh God, we honorably asked how much longer how long in Washington president Kennedy was described as

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