(CIVIL RIGHTS) EVERS MEDGAR Large memorial photograph

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) EVERS, MEDGAR. Large "memorial" photograph. 19 x 15 inches, laminated to a piece of wood with beveled black mourning edges and with gilt highlights. Np, circa 1963

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A large photographic portrait of Medgar Evers (1925-1963) Civil Rights leader, quite possibly intended for some sort of memorial service. Evers, head of the NAACP in Mississippi, was shot dead by an assassin on June 12, 1963 while in the driveway of his home. Byron De La Beckwith, scion of an old Mississippi family, was put on trial twice in the 1960s, but in each instance was acquitted by white juries. Not until 1994, a full three decades after Evers had led his fellow Mississippians in a crusade against bigotry and intolerance, was Beckwith convicted and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2001. Evers was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C. with full Military Honors, having been a veteran of World War II. His loss at age 37 was a tragic reversal for the civil rights movement, but it galvanized further protest and drew the sympathetic concern of the federal government to his cause. Evers death prompted President John F. Kennedy to ask Congress for a comprehensive civil rights bill.