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  1. Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American from Greenwood, Mississippi known for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1964, he was tried twice on a murder charge in Mississippi.

  2. Byron De La Beckwith (* 9. November 1920 in Colusa, Colusa County Kalifornien; † 21. Januar 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer weißer Rassist und Mörder des schwarzen Bürgerrechtlers Medgar Evers. Während der 1960er Jahre war der Ku-Klux-Klan für viele Terroranschläge verantwortlich – Evers Ermordung am 12.

  3. 3. Apr. 2014 · Byron De La Beckwith was a segregationist and Ku Klux Klan member who killed civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was convicted of the murder in 1994 after two previous trials ended in hung juries.

  4. 23. Jan. 2001 · Byron De La Beckwith, whose 1994 conviction in the murder of a civil rights leader three decades earlier symbolized a transformation in Mississippi, died on Sunday night in Jackson, Miss. He was...

  5. Beckwith was a Ku Klux Klan member who shot and killed civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963. He was finally convicted in 1994 after a long legal battle led by Evers' widow Myrlie.

  6. 5. Feb. 2024 · A jury sentenced Beckwith to life in prison for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader, based on fingerprint and witness evidence. Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar Evers, celebrated the verdict and said, "Yay, Medgar, yay!"

  7. 12. Juni 2020 · Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader and NAACP activist who was killed by a white supremacist in 1963. It took 30 years and three trials to convict Byron De La Beckwith, who died in prison in 2001.