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3 results for "Medgar Evers"
June 12, 1963
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
July 2, 1925
Medgar Evers Born
Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary whose assassination galvanized the civil rights movement, was born in Decatur, Mississippi.
June 8, 1994
Haiti Founded as Republic
Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers, 31 years after the crime.