Video: 'Medgar Evers - Part 2, Civil Rights Heroes Discovery Documentary' (Feb. 5, 1994, at 4:57)

(Saturday, February 5, 1994; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)) — White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted today in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, on June 12, 1963, and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. De La Beckwith appealed unsuccessfully, and died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.