Who Killed Medgar Evers Justified?

Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist from Decatur, Mississippi. He had a wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and three children. They were all devastated on June 12, 1963; the day he was assassinated. He was killed by a white supremacist named Byron DeLa Beckwith. Though his assassin was eventually convicted Medgar Evers assassination wasn’t justified because his death didn’t have much importance during his time, he was killed while trying to integrate schools, and his death didn’t stop the integration of all white school. Through the 1940s-1960s Decatur, Mississippi regularly had new about African Americans being murdered, lynched, hung, or beaten. Usually for showing interest in a white woman, talking back to white men, or even simple things like not giving up your bus seat or voting. So the case of Medgar Evers wasn’t very surprising to the majority of the community except the black community. This also didn’t bring much of a surprise to the state government. Byron DeLa Beckwith wasn’t convicted on his first two trials even though there was enough evidence against him. In his first two trials he had all-white juries and that could be a reason why he wasn’t convicted

The NAACP stands for the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People and that’s exactly what Medgar Evers did daily. He tried to integrate the University of Mississippi Law School by applying but got rejected by the school. After being rejected he got help from Thurgood Marshall, an African American attorney, to integrate the University of Mississippi Law School with a lawsuit but he still failed to gain admission. But while working in Jackson, Mississippi for the NAACP he continuously tried to find a way to integrate schools. White supremacist like the Ku Klux Klan were getting annoyed with Evers determination. That was why Beckwith, a Klan member, killed Evers hoping it would scare others from trying to do the same as