22 h, jun 12, 1963 y - Assassination of Medgar Evers
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Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway of his home by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. He joined the NAACP, and traveled through his home state of Mississippi encouraging poor African Americans to vote and recruiting them in the civil rights movement.
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