Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.
Evers c. 1963
Evers in military uniform while serving in the Army
The Evers house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, where Medgar Evers was fatally shot after getting out of his car.
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery
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.
De La Beckwith in 1973