Skip to main content

Medgar Evers

View
@ United States Government Publishing Office (GPO)

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Description

Title from title screen (viewed on July 22, 2008).Redacted.Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur Mississippi. He became the State Field Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. On June 12, 1963, Evers was slain in the driveway of his home, by a sniper's bullet. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C. with full Military Honors, having been a veteran of World War II. A fingerprint found on the telescopic gunsight near the murder scene was traced to Bryon De La Beckwith, a white segregationist, from Greenwood, Mississippi. He was charged with the murder. Two mistrials were declared when the all white juries could not break the deadlock. Mr. Evers was also the subject in two Civil Rights file, wherein, he took part in demonstrations in Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Type:
Text
Format:
Language Material
Rights:
Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. For more information please see http://www.gpo.gov/help/index.html#public_domain_copyright_notice.htm
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

United States Government Publishing Office (GPO)

Record Harvested From

United States Government Publishing Office (GPO)