This man worked to exonerate Clyde Kennard, who was sentenced to seven years of hard labor forstealing chicken feed.
This man worked to exonerate Clyde Kennard, who was sentenced to seven years of hard labor forstealing chicken feed. This man's story was told in the PBS documentary, For Us the Living, based ona book co-written by his widow. A song sometimes titled for this man ends with the line, "Thecountry gained a killer, and the country lost a man" and was written by Phil (*) Ochs. This man'skiller was arrested in New Orleans for the unrelated crime of driving around with a car full of bombsintending to murder B'nai B'rith member A. I. Botnick. In 1995, this man's widow became the first femalehead of the NAACP. While wearing a "Jim Crow Must Go" t-shirt, he was killed by Byron de la Beckwithin 1963. For 10 points, name this Mississippi Civil Rights activist.
This man worked to exonerate Clyde Kennard, who was sentenced to seven years of hard labor forstealing chicken feed.
Medgar Wiley Evers