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Trials (Murder) -- United States.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Reed Massengill Portrait of a Racist Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3525
Abstract

The Reed Massengill Portrait of a Racist Collection houses all research, correspondence, drafts and other papers related to Massengill's 1994 biography of his uncle, Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 murder of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers. Although Beckwith was tried twice in the years following the murder, both trials ended in hung juries. A third trial in 1993 finally convicted him of first-degree murder. He died on January 21, 2001.

Dates: 1918-1994