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Baden's exhumation last June of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers appears to meet that test. Although white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was charged with the 1963 murder of Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home, two juries deadlocked, and Beckwith, who denies the charge, went free. Last year prosecutors reopened the case, but the original autopsy report was missing. So Baden was called in to dig up the surprisingly well-preserved body and do another autopsy. If Beckwith is retried, Baden will probably testify, and a conviction could lead to the reopening of other unsolved cases. "There...
...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...
...time of the Medgar Evers episode, manyconsidered Counter to be a leader in theAfrican-American community. He had already beenfeatured in the Dewar's ad, and his new book andfilm from his arctic trips--The North PoleLegacy Black, White and Eskimo--received aspecial NAACP Image award...
...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...