June 11, 1963: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 1

On the night of June 11, 1963, Byron de la Beckwith murdered Medgar Evers with a single shot. But how did he end up hiding in a bush across the street from the home of a civil rights leader?

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

Zinn, Howard. (1964) SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Beacon Press. Boston.

Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/06/12/issue.html

https://www.lodinews.com/features/vintage_lodi/article_426cb4b4-269e-5c6f-ba07-7e92ecf23142.html 

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/witnesses/medgarevers.htm

https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/medgar-evers-and-the-origin-of-the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi 

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnalhn/runawayslavenotices.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html

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