BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, June 12, 1963, Mississippi civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, was shot and murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the racist White Citizens Council. Evers was the Field Secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. The assassination occurred just hours after President John F. Kennedy's nationally televised speech […]
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