Trump Admin Doesn't Want Us to Call the Klansman Who Murdered Medgar Evers a Racist
National Park Service attempted to remove references to Byron De La Beckwith's racism and details of Medgar Evers' murder from brochures at the Evers monument.
MLK Jr's Son Accuses Trump-Run National Park of Erasing' and Sanitizing' History By Deleting Racism References to Medgar Evers' Assassin
Medgar Evers' assassination galvanized mass civil rights protests and helped spur the Civil Rights Act while his killer initially avoided conviction due to Jim Crow-era racial exclusion from juries.