Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn’t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration.

Sources & Further Reading:

Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.

Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row 

Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.

Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press

Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press

Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton (1997). Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley & Sons Inc

Tisale, John (1996). Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas

Sheridan, Louis (2021) "Patriotism Betrayed: How the U.S. Military Resegregated From 1913-1939," Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II : Vol. 26, Article 11.

Donaldson, Le'Trice, "A Legacy All Their Own: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship, Race, and
Manhood, 1870-1920" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167

Hartgrove, W. B. “The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1916, pp. 110–31. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634. 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from

https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08

https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html

https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later

https://www.oyez.org/about-audio 

https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war

https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/

https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf

Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn&rsquo;t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration.
Sources &amp; Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper &amp; Row&nbsp;
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown &amp; Company.
Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press
Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press
Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton (1997). Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley &amp; Sons Inc
Tisale, John (1996). Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas
Sheridan, Louis (2021) "Patriotism Betrayed: How the U.S. Military Resegregated From 1913-1939," Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II : Vol. 26, Article 11.
Donaldson, Le'Trice, "A Legacy All Their Own: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship, Race, and Manhood, 1870-1920" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167. <a href="https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167">https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167</a>
Hartgrove, W. B. &ldquo;The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.&rdquo; The Journal of Negro History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1916, pp. 110&ndash;31. JSTOR, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634">https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634</a>.&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from</a>
<a href="https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08">https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08</a>
<a href="https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification">https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html</a>
<a href="https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa">https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa</a>
<a href="https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties">https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties</a>
<a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later">https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later</a>
<a href="https://www.oyez.org/about-audio">https://www.oyez.org/about-audio</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war">https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war</a>
<a href="https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/">https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/</a>
<a href="https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/">https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/</a>
<a href="https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf">https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf</a>

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