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Crime history – Civil rights leader Evers assassinated in Miss.

By Scott McCabe
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On this day, June 12, in 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway in Jackson, Miss., shot by a Ku Klux Klan member.

Evers was instrumental in desegregating the University of Mississippi and investigating the death of Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old who was killed for reportedly flirting with a white woman.

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