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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 09:18 AM Jun 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on June 12, 1963

In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De la Beckwith, who was not convicted until 1994 after an extensive investigation by Jackson, Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger newspaper...http://bit.ly/11GXsZd

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