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Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Evers was the first NAACP field secretary in the state. De La Beckwith had positioned himself across the street from Evers's home. Using a rifle, he shot Evers in the back. [5] Evers died an hour later, aged 37. Myrlie Evers, his wife, and his three children, James, Reena, and Darrell Evers, were home at the time of the assassination.
Medgar Evers: 1963: 12 June American civil rights activist Jackson, Mississippi United States: Byron De La Beckwith: Louis Allen: 1964: 31 January American voting rights activist Amite County, Mississippi United States: Disputed James Chaney: 1964: 21 June American civil rights Mississippi United States: Ku Klux Klan: Andrew Goodman: 1964: 21 June
Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist who was killed outside his Jackson home in 1963, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He was assigned to the Evers case, which he began investigating in 1989. His strong commitment to the case contributed to the break-up of his marriage. DeLaughter is best known for leading the state's successful prosecution of Byron De La Beckwith for the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1994, more than 30 years after the ...
"Only a Pawn in Their Game" is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. Showing support for African-Americans during the American Civil Rights Movement , the song was released on Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' album in 1964.
Medgar Evers had just arrived home in the early hours of June 12, 1963, when a white supremacist fatally shot him, hours after President John F. Kennedy delivered a televised speech about civil ...
Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on February 5, 1994