Show Notes
In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself.
Sources & Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.
Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.
Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.
Snipe, Tracy (2021). The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, The Sarah Collins Rudolph Story. Africa World Press.
Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.
Nossiter, Adam (1994). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/719/1345/1438234/
https://shadowproof.com/2018/03/07/documents-reveal-police-targeting-anti-racists-charlottesville/ https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/4404359-DHS-Bulletin-Aug-9/
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2007/may/30/dredging-up-the-past-why-mississippians-must-tell/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72504545/ge-v-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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