White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and immediately was sentenced to life in prison. (Beckwith died January 21, 2001, at the age of 70.)
White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and immediately was sentenced to life in prison. (Beckwith died January 21, 2001, at the age of 70.)