Word: medgar
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...anthropological work won him respect andnational recognition. In 1988, he was asked tohead City University of New York's Medgar EversUniversity...
Counter also blasted the school's standing."There is considerable doubt regarding thecontinued existence and viability of Medgar EversCollege as an independent institution," he said...
...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 two white men of the killing. In 1963 Henry's N.A.A.C.P. associate, Medgar Evers, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. His accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith, was freed when all-white juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone for old wrongs, is trying to extradite him from Tennessee to try him again...
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 salesman, now 70, was arrested in Tennessee and charged once again with the 1963 killing...