 and when medgar would go door to door and say introduce himself hi i'm medgar evers and are you a member of the naacp a lot of the teachers would say no because you could be fired from your teaching job for joining the naacp so he would tell them you know don't take that risk just give us your dues we need your money more than we need your numbers so he would do things like that that would annoy his bosses because they wanted the numbers and he knew he couldn't get them there were people were afraid