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Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American from Greenwood, Mississippi known for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964, he was tried twice on a murder charge in Mississippi.
3 de abr. de 2014 · Byron De La Beckwith was a segregationist and Ku Klux Klan member who killed civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was convicted of the murder in 1994 after two previous trials ended in hung juries.
23 de ene. de 2001 · Byron De La Beckwith, whose 1994 conviction in the murder of a civil rights leader three decades earlier symbolized a transformation in Mississippi, died on Sunday night in Jackson, Miss....
12 de jun. de 2020 · Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader and NAACP activist who was killed by a white supremacist in 1963. It took 30 years and three trials to convict Byron De La Beckwith, who died in prison in 2001.
5 de feb. de 2024 · A jury sentenced Beckwith to life in prison for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader, based on fingerprint and witness evidence. Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar Evers, celebrated the verdict and said, "Yay, Medgar, yay!"
Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist who killed civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was arrested, but acquitted twice, until new evidence and witnesses led to his conviction in 1994.
11 de jun. de 2023 · A sheriff escorts Byron De La Beckwith, left, from the courthouse in February 1994 after his conviction. Two previous all-White juries had deadlocked on the charges. (Rogelio...
