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Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and member of the Ku Klux Klan who murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1964, he was tried twice on a murder charge in Mississippi.
Byron De La Beckwith ( 9 de novembro de 1920 — 21 de janeiro de 2001) foi um estadunidense supremacista branco e membro da Ku Klux Klan. Foi condenado pelo assassinato de Medgar Evers, ativista negro que defendia os direitos civis . O rifle que De La Beckwith usou para matar Evers.
3 de abr. de 2014 · Byron De La Beckwith was a segregationist and Ku Klux Klan member who killed civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was convicted of the murder in 1994 after two previous trials ended in hung juries.
23 de jan. de 2001 · Byron De La Beckwith, whose 1994 conviction in the murder of a civil rights leader three decades earlier symbolized a transformation in Mississippi, died on Sunday night in Jackson, Miss. He...
Beckwith was a Ku Klux Klan member who shot and killed civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963. He was finally convicted in 1994 after a long legal battle led by Evers' widow Myrlie.
8 de mar. de 2018 · Their biggest target was the NAACP, and Beckwith was a charter member. Two years later, the newly-formed Sovereignty Commission “diverted funds to the Citizens Council, interfered with [black] voter registration drives, and advised police officers on how to break the law without getting caught.”
12 de jun. de 2020 · Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and NAACP leader who was killed by a white supremacist in 1963. It took 30 years and three trials to convict Byron De La Beckwith, who died in prison in 2001.
