jun 12, 1963 - Assassination of Medgar Evers

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in jackson Mississippi white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith shot and killed Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader, while in his driveway. Medgar joined the NAACP as a field worker in 1952. during the emmett till case Medgar helped get witnesses and evidence to help support the case. this brought attention to African Americans in the south

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