NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is shot in the back in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, hours after President Kennedy's civil rights address.
At a Glance
- Date
- 12 June 1963
- Location
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Key people
- Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith
- Category
- Civil Rights Movement
- Source
- Mississippi v. Beckwith court records · NAACP
What It Meant Then
His murder made him a martyr of the movement and exposed Mississippi's culture of impunity.
What It Means Now
His killer was finally convicted in 1994, three decades later.
Also on 12 June
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