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Medgar W. Evers was murdered at the door of his home on June 12. The 37-year-old NAACP field secretary had been one of the leaders of the mass civil rights demonstrations that swept Jackson, Miss., this summer. On July 23, the FBI announced that Byron de la Beckworth had been taken into custody, and the next day the Jackson Police formally charged Beckworth with the murder of Evers...
...killer. Gov. Ross Barnett and Jackson's Mayor Allen C. Thompson, both members of the Citizens Council, offered rewards for the apprehension of the assassin. Fingerprints on the murder weapon led the federal detectives to Greenwood, Miss., where the first Citizens Council in Mississippi was founded, and to Beckworth. He was charged with murder, and District Attorney William L. Walker demanded the death penalty. It seemed as if the time had ended when Negroes could be murdered with impunity...
...Mississippi's heritage may still prevail, Half a year has passed since the death of Evers and still no one has been brought to trial for the crime. Beckworth is still charged with the killing, but the summer's sense of urgency has been lost, and a series of events have prevented the trial. Last month circuit Judge Lexon Hendrik of Haines County convened court for a hearing on the case. But the defendant did not appear. Apparently Sheriff Jonathan Edwards had received no notice that he was to bring the prisoner to court. On Nov. 25 Judge Hendrik called...
Whether or not Beckworth is guilty of the murder of Evers is not the issue at hand here. The real issue if whether or not Mississippi intends ever to bring him to trial or prefers instead to continue to make a farce of justice. Mississippi Negroes have made every attempt to use those legal paths open to them in their struggle. But if Beckworth is not tried, Mississippi will be once again assuring the Negro people that legal protection of life, property, and other rights is for whites only...
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