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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]
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.
He was the first son of Barney Roy DeLaughter and Billie Newman (Burt) DeLaughter, who later had another son Mike. Bobby's father was a commercial artist for a newspaper. The family moved to Jackson when Bobby was very young, and DeLaughter grew up being part of the city's white middle class. He was nine on June 12, 1963, when Medgar Evers was ...
Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on February 5, 1994
At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, and as she reflects on his work — and her own ...
Description: Tony and I visited with Medgar Evers awhile back. He asked me to give you some information about this courageous man: Medgar Evers served in the US armed forces during WWII, yet when he returned to his native Mississippi, like veterans all over the segregated South, he was forced to reenter a world of injustice and inequality.
On Wednesday, June 12, 1963, just after midnight, a gunman killed Medgar Evers as he left his car. Under pressure from President John F. Kennedy, Thompson agreed to three of the eight civil rights goals (hiring black policemen, upgrading black municipal worker salaries, and employing black crossing guards for school zones).
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 ...