... car to his house, the sniper opened fire, shooting Evers in the back. He died in front of his two small children. The suspect in his murder was a white supremacist, Byron De la Beckwith. Beckwith was quickly apprehended and charged for the murder of Evers. The gun used to kill Evers was retrieved with fingerprints belonging to Beckwith. However, the two ... eyewitnesses to the crime, both white police officers, claimed to have seen Beckwith in Greenwood, Mississippi, 60 miles away from the crime scene. Byron De la Beckwith was tried and acquitted twice in 1964 in connection with the Eve...

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... cut all extra circular activities with B.Y.U. "because of alleged racial discrimination by the Mormon Church"13. In1974 the NAACP filled a lawsuit with a Federal court against the Church in support of Byron Marchant, an African-American Mormon scoutmaster14. Mormon-sponsored Boy Scout troops required any senior patrol leaders to hold the title of priesthood, thus blacks were excluded. As a result to the ... ...

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