Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers

Kristen Hoerl

Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers

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On June 12 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot to death in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Nine days later, police arrested avowed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith for Evers's murder.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual (Selected papers from the 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference
State	Published - Jan 1 2004

Keywords

Byron de la Beckwith
Civil Rights
Ghosts of Mississippi
Hegemony
Transformation Myth

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Communication

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Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers

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