<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People">NAACP</a> field secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Medgar Evers">Medgar Evers</a> is murdered in front of his home in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi" id="mwAQo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jackson, Mississippi">Jackson, Mississippi</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> member <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_De_La_Beckwith" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byron De La Beckwith">Byron De La Beckwith</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>.