Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
On June 12 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot to death in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Nine days later, police arrested avowed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith for Evers's murder.
Recommended Citation
Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers” (pp. 243-249). (2006). In P. Bizzell (Ed.), Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual (Selected papers from the 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference.) Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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