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Henry's eyes blaze with the memories of the human cost of that victory. Because 14-year-old Emmett Till, down from Chicago to visit relatives, allegedly whistled at a white woman, he was beaten, shot and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted...
Byron de la Beckwith was a happy man in 1964 when two different all-white juries deadlocked on whether he was guilty of shooting black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Miss. But Beckwith's tribulations are far from over: last week the avowed white supremacist and former fertilizer...
Evers' widow Myrlie produced a 1,500-page transcript of the earlier trials, though prosecutors had previously said that all known copies had disappeared. Then Beckwith's long-missing rifle mysteriously turned up in the garage of DeLaughter's father-in-law. Finally, two black witnesses are expected to place...
MISS EVERS' BOYS. Kenny Leon, new artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theater, is only the second black to run a major regional theater. In a splendid staging of this true story about a government syphilis experiment in which blacks went untreated, he demonstrates his great gifts.
Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon...