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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...
Over 600 Negroes have been lynched in the State of Mississippi since 1982. Evers himself, at the age of fourteen, saw a friend of his father's lynched in Decatur, Miss., supposedly for insulting a white woman. Two Negroes who registered to vote, the Rev. George W. Lee of Belxoni...
Things were as genteel as could be when Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, was transferred to Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Miss., after three months in nearby Rankin County Jail. "Glad to see you," welcomed the jailer. "Mighty glad to be here," said...
Henry was chosen by a recent convention of civil rights groups in Jackson, and he has the support of all prominent Negroes in the state. The campaign will be led by Robert Moses, chairman of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, and Charles Evers, brother of the NAACP field secretary...
CHANNING (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Jason Evers plays a professor and Henry Jones the dean in this new college series. John Cassavetes is guest star. Première.