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NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
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NAACP
American civil rights organization
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist and soldier (1925–1963)
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who served in World War II, was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jackson, Mississippi
Capital and largest city of Mississippi, United States
Jackson is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi. Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County. The city had a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ku Klux Klan
American white supremacist terrorist hate group
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Byron De La Beckwith
American white supremacist, Klansman, and convicted murderer
Byron De La Beckwith Jr. 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.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Civil rights movement
1954–1968 U.S. social movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)