Jackson, Mississippi - The rifle the Byron De La Beckwith used to kill NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963, on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights M

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Jackson, Mississippi - The rifle the Byron De La Beckwith used to kill NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963, on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The museum focuses on the movement which upended politics and race relations in the state between 1945 and 1970.

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Size: 6498px × 4332px
Location: Jackson, MS, USA
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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