Byron De La Beckwith Jr. was an American from Greenwood, Mississippi known for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963.

Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee. It was a center of cotton planter culture in the 19th century.