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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...
Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. But all- white juries twice failed to reach a verdict, and Beckwith went free...
...then, in 1963, the white arm of racism strikes back. May: Birmingham public-safety commissioner "Bull" Connor turns his dogs and his fire hoses on demonstrators. June: in Jackson, Miss., Medgar Evers is murdered. September: four black children are killed in a Birmingham church bombing. The following summer promised the climax to a melodrama that would be scored to either We Shall Overcome or Mississippi Goddam...
Observers have differing opinions as to whetherCounter's actions will have an impact on thestruggling school. Many have seen Medgar Evers asthe subject of embarassing situations before andbrush aside the latest misunderstanding. But someare stung by the nature of Counter's rejection andsay it only further stains the school's alreadytarnished reputation...
...feel particularly badly for the faculty andthe students of Medgar Evers," said CarolynnReid-Wallace, vice chancellor of academic affairs.But she added that "no one is indispensable" andthat the school will get along just fine withoutCounter...