Today in Labor History 6/12/1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” is about Evers’s assassination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM&list=RDLJ25-U3jNWM&start_radio=1
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