De la Beckwith was tried by all-white juries twice in the mids, and both times jurors failed to convict him. It took thirty years for de la Beckwith to be brought to trial a third time. On February 5, , a racially mixed jury found him guilty of the murder of Medgar Evers. Sentenced to life imprisonment, De la Beckwith died of heart failure in His widow, Myrlie Evers , vowed to continue the fight for civil rights, and she has traveled the world to bring the struggle to an international audience.
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Struggle of Medgar Evers. Murder of Medgar Evers. I have met Myrlie Evers-Williams three times in my life and I have three books she has written all autographed by her. His father was Houston Wells the neighbor who fired his shotgun that night and drove Medgar Evers to the hospital in his station wagon. My friend Medgar told me this story and then I saw a video with Mrs. Evers-Williams and she said the same thing verbatim…. I would like to see and read all of these books.
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Since the aim of discrimination was to keep power in the hands of the South's white population, preventing and discouraging African Americans from voting was a major tactic of white racists. When election day came, the Evers brothers found their polling place blocked by an armed crowd of whites, estimated by Evers to be two hundred strong.
Evers and his brother did not vote that day. He entered college in , majored in business administration, and graduated in During his senior year he married Myrlie Beasley. After graduation the young couple lived on his earnings as an insurance salesman.
Medgar Evers. Evers continued to witness the victims of hate and racism. He saw the terrible living conditions of the rural blacks he visited while working for his company. Then in he witnessed an attempted lynching during a time of great personal sorrow. His father was dying in the hospital, and while visiting him Evers went to get a breath of air outside. As he later related in The Martyrs, "On that very night a Negro had fought with a white man in Union [Mississippi] and a white mob had shot the Negro in the leg.
The police brought the Negro to the hospital but the mob was outside … armed with pistols and rifles, yelling for the Negro. I walked out into the middle of it. Within two years he was named to the important position of state field secretary for the organization.
With his wife and children, he moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked closely with black church leaders and other civil rights activists. Evers spoke constantly of the need to overcome hatred and promote understanding and equality between the races.
It was not a message that everyone in Mississippi wanted to hear. Evers was featured on a nine-man death list in the deep South as early as He and his family endured many threats and other violent acts, making them well aware of the danger surrounding Evers because of his activities.
Still he persisted in his efforts to end segregation separating people based solely on their race in public facilities, schools, and restaurants.
He organized voter-registration drives and demonstrations. His days were filled with meetings, economic boycotts to make a stand against a person or a business by refusing to buy their goods, products, or businesses , marches, prayer services, picket lines, and bailing other demonstrators out of jail. On June 12, , President Kennedy made an address to the nation.
Kennedy believed that whites standing in the way of civil rights for blacks represented "a moral crisis" and pledged his support to federal action on integration, or ending segregation.
As he left his car, he was shot in the back. Evers died shortly thereafter at the hospital. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI looked into Evers's murder, a suspect was uncovered, Byron de la Beckwith — , who was an outspoken opponent of integration and a member of a group called the Mississippi's White Citizens Council.
A gun found feet from the site of the shooting had Beckwith's fingerprint on it. Several witnesses placed Beckwith in Evers's neighborhood that night.
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