Ep 45 - The Assassination of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers

Haunted Hospitality

Medgar Evers was a trailblazing leader in the Civil Rights Movement. As the NAACP's first field secretary in the South, he investigated crimes against Black people all over Mississippi and helped establish the organization's focus on grassroots activism. As Evers became more well known, white supremacists started harassing his family, passing out KKK flyers on his street, and even once firebombed his house. In the early morning of June 12, 1963, Evers was shot outside his home and died shortly after he arrived at the hospital. There was only suspect, Byron De La Beckwith, but it took three trials and over 30 years for him to be convicted.

In this episode, we talk about Medgar Evers's and his wife's lives and activism, the South's Jim Crow laws, the Civil Rights Movement, and the decades-long journey to Beckwith's conviction.
But first, in Zoey's Something Spooky, she dives into the origin of wakes as an important step in the grieving process.
Sources: https://hauntedhospitality.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/the-assassination-of-civil-rights-leader-medgar-evers/

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