Byron De La Beckwith (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...

He was twice tried in 1964. Both trials ended with all-white juries unable to reach a verdict. In a third trial in 1994, Beckwith was convicted of the murder of Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi, based on new evidence that he had boasted of the killing at a Ku Klux Klan rally. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. He died in prison in 2001 of heart problems. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... This article is confusing for some readers, and needs to be edited for clarity. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Nickname: The Best of the New South; The Bold, New City Coordinates: Country United States State Mississippi County Hinds Founded 1822 Mayor Frank Melton Area    - City 276. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...

The 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi tells the story of the 1994 trial; James Woods portrayed Beckwith in an Academy Award-nominated performance. This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. ... James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an Oscar-nominated American actor. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ...

References

• David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 in Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (2004 book), 68-95.
• Brown, Jennie. Medgar Evers. Los Angeles: Melrose Square Pub. Co., 1994.
• John Dittmer, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994 book).
• Evers, Myrlie B., and William Peters. For Us, the Living. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967; Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
• Jackson, James E. At the funeral of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi: A Tribute in Tears and a Thrust for Freedom. New York: Publisher’s New Press, 1963.
• Massengill, Reed. Portrait of a Racist: The Man Who Killed Medgar Evers? New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
• Nossiter, Adam. Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1994; Da Capo Press, 2002.
• Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995 book).
• Salter, John R. Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism. Foreword by R. Edwin King, Jr. Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1979.
• Scott, R. W. Glory in Conflict: A Saga of Byron De La Beckwith. Camden, Arkansas: Camark Press, 1991.
• Remembering Medgar Evers—For a New Generation: A Commemoration. Developed by the Civil Rights Research and Documentation Project, Afro-American Studies Program, The University of Mississippi. Oxford, MS: distributed by Heritage Publications in cooperation with the Mississippi Network for Black History and Heritage, 1988.
• Vollers, Maryanne. Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, The Trials of Byron de la Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.

See also

• List of assassins
• List of famous prison deaths