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June 8, 1994

Haiti Founded as Republic

On February 5, 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 murder of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers after two earlier trials had resulted in hung juries. The conviction demonstrated that justice, however delayed, could still be achieved.

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People: Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith
Sources
1. Medgar Evers - National Park Service2. Medgar Evers - Mississippi History - Mississippi Department of Archives and History3. Medgar Evers: A Civil Rights Martyr - Smithsonian Magazine4. Medgar Evers' Murder and the Trial of Byron De La Beckwith - PBS

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