Modern Era · North America · Politics
1963
Medgar Evers assassinated
June 12, 1963
The NAACP field secretary in Mississippi was shot in his driveway in Jackson by a white supremacist. He died at a nearby hospital. The killer, Byron De La Beckwith, would walk free for thirty years until finally convicted in 1994. Evers's widow Myrlie kept fighting for justice for three decades. He was thirty-seven.
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