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#OnThisDay in 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith of murdering #NAACP leader Medgar Evers. His widow, Myrlie Evers, said his assassin “failed to realize Medgar was still alive in spirit & through ... every one of us who wanted to see justice done.”
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On this day in 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Medgar Evers
On this day in 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
