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Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (died 2001)
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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)
Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist and soldier (1925–1963)
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