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...witness stand, staring down at the small color photograph in her lap, Myrlie Evers' hands quivered slightly. The wood-paneled courtroom was silent. Mrs. Evers paused, drew in a breath and then spoke, her clear voice cracking for the first time that day. "Yes," she said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify...
Shortly after midnight on a balmy June night, she said, she and the Evers' three young children, who had waited up after listening to President Kennedy give a speech on civil rights, heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please...
...said. "I can't find the words right now about what my feelings were. I simply can't. It was terribly emotional. I felt ill. I actually felt physically ill And determined -- determined to see this thing through I'm going the last mile of the way with Medgar, and that's what it's all about...
...limit was placed on civil rights leader Medgar Evers' life; a bullet in the back saw to that. Three decades after his slaying, though, there's no limit on justice. The Mississippi Supreme Court has cleared the way for a third trial of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, 72, in the assassination of Evers on June 12, 1963. Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 by all-white juries, which deadlocked. Beckwith's wife Thelma wept at the news of the new trial. So did Evers' widow Myrlie...
...have to be committed and accept responsibility for ourselves," said Shabazz, who teaches at Medgar Evers College. "Then [we must] help others without regard to ethnicity...