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Medgar Evers grave, Arlington National Cemetery, 2007. Date: 23 April 2008 (original upload date) Source: Transferred from to Commons by Igitur using ...
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.
During the trial, the body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for autopsy, and found to be in a surprisingly good state of preservation as a result of embalming. Beckwith was convicted of murder on February 5, 1994, after having lived as a free man for the three decades following the killing.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on Friday. He was named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of ...
On June 12, 1963, at age 42, De La Beckwith murdered NAACP and civil rights leader Medgar Evers shortly after the activist arrived home in Jackson. 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 investigated lynchings, beatings and other violence that Black residents suffered at the hands of white segregationists. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The post 60 years after Medgar Evers’ murder ...
Arriving home around midnight, Evers, standing in the carport, was shot by Byron de la Beckwith, using a sniper rifle, from an undeveloped lot about 200 feet (61 m) away. The bullet passed through the house's picture window, and through the wall between the living room and kitchen before coming to rest. Evers died early the next morning. [4]
Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday. Evers died of “natural causes” at a home in the ...