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Byron De La Beckwith convicted on this date in 1994 in Medgar Evers assassination
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 5 months agoByron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on February 5,...
Why Knoxville author Reed Massengill's 'Portrait of a Racist' remains relevant
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoIt has been more than 60 years since civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers was gunned down in the...
On This Day, Feb. 5: White supremacist convicted of killing Medgar Evers
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 months agoPolice investigate the home of Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, who was shot to death by...
Barnett Reservoir: Some still want to rename lake, civil rights legend calls it frivolous
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIs it time to rename Ross Barnett Reservoir? Some Mississippians think so. On the other hand, civil...
Medgar Evers is one of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. We don’t talk about him...
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoOPINION: Sixty years after Evers' assassination, many people still don't know the story of Medgar...
Family ties strong for Badgers' Nick Evers, distant cousin of a slain civil rights leader
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoMADISON – Wisconsin quarterback Nick Evers never met his distant cousin, one of the more influential...
South is reckoning with past by renaming, removing shrines to the past. What is next?
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAfter myriad renamings of revered military bases and other institutions, plus the removal of...
OnPolitics: Civil rights icon Myrlie Evers continues to fight for justice
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHi there, OnPolitics readers! At 90 years old, civil rights pioneer Myrlie Evers is still organizing...
This is America: The persistence of formidable women, from Myrlie Evers to Patty Murray
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe first time I interviewed civil rights icon Myrlie Evers a decade ago, she was about to deliver...
Emmett Till: Lawsuit seeks Carolyn Bryant's arrest in kidnapping
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant...