Myrlie and Medgar would get married in 1951 and the following year, after he graduated, the two would move to Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Medgar worked selling life insurance, but quickly became entrenched in activism. He witnessed an attempting lynching in 1954 that would further encourage him to work on securing rights for Black Americans. 

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/karltonjahmal/what-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school-the-assassination-of