The murder of Medgar Evers
1963 · Event
Hours after President Kennedy's first televised civil rights address, Mississippi's NAACP field secretary is shot in the back in his own driveway, his wife and children inside. His killer, twice freed by hung all-white juries, is finally convicted thirty-one years later.
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