‘You Can Kill a Man, but You Can’t Kill an Idea’: Remembering Medgar Evers on the 54th Anniversary of His Assassination | The Root

Kirsten West Savali, The Root Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] June 12, 1963, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers in the driveway of his Jackson, Miss., home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Evers’ wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and their three children, Darrell, Reena and James, were all inside when they […]

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