Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
- ISBN-10
- 1557286469
- ISBN-13
- 9781557286468
- Series
- Medgar Evers
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 434
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-08
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Author
- Michael Vinson Williams
Description
Gale Group, Inc., a division of the Thomson Corporation, presents a biographical sketch of African-American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925-1963). Evers fought against segregation. He received numerous threats of violence and was ultimately shot in the back and killed. Byron de la Beckwith (1922-2001), Evers' murderer, was originally freed due to a jury deadlock, but was retried and convicted in 1994.
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