Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers’ backyard, Jackson, Mississippi, 2007
On June 12, in 1963, Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi, was gunned down in his driveway in Jackson. Byron De La Beckwith was tried for the murder in 1963 and 1964; both trials ended in hung juries. De La Beckwith was convicted with new evidence in 1994.