Word: medgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women of the Year: Mrs. Medgar Evers and Mrs. John F. Kennedy...
...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...
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 Beckwith, comfortably puffing on a cigar and seemingly unconcerned that his trial has just been set for Jan. 27. But even Southern hospitality has to leave off somewhere. When he asked permission to bring his gun collection, his jailers politely refused. Back in Rankin County the sheriff was amazed...
Baltimore Postman William Moore, a white man murdered as he walked along an Alabama highway wearing an integration sign, and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back outside his home, became martyrs to the cause. Direct-action protests proliferated. There were more "freedom walks" and "freedom marches"-and then came the "freedom calls," in which Negroes harass white city officials by calling them on the telephone, murmuring "Freedom" and hanging...
...done-in and dying cowboy has been replaced by victims of racial violence like Medgar Evers. The stock villains, besides Policeman Connor, include Ross Barnett, "Mr. Woolworth" and, occasionally, John Kennedy. On the other side of the fence, Dallas Folk Singer Hermes Nye has been singing a bitterly resigned ditty called Mine Eyes Have Seen the Coming of the N.A.A.C.P...