25. Byron de la Beckwith's victim was shot in the back while walking from his car to his front door.
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Medgar Evers
Following his rejection by the then-segregated University of Mississippi when he applied to enter its law school in 1954, Medgar Evers became the focus for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People's fight to have the university desegregated. It wasn't until 1962, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the University's non-admission of African-American students to be unconstitutional, that the fight was won. (James Meredith was the first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.) Meantime, Evers had become the first field officer for the NAACP in Mississippi, and it was when he was returning home from a meeting with NAACP lawyers early on the morning of June 12, 1963, that Evers was shot in the back in the driveway of his home. He managed to crawl the 30 feet to the front door before collapsing, and died 50 minutes later in hospital. Byron de la Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson, Mississippi, was arrested for the murder, but all-white juries at two trials were deadlocked and de la Beckwith went free. It wasn't until new evidence emerged in 1994 that he was re-tried. This time he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2001. Huey Long, the flamboyant former governor of Louisiana, was killed on September 10, 1935. The supposed assassin, Carl Weiss, was immediately shot and killed by Long's bodyguards. There has been speculation that Weiss only slapped Long, and that Long was actually killed in the hail of bullets fired by the bodyguards. Malcolm X, a disciple of Elijah Muhammed, the founder of the Black Muslims, was shot down as he addressed a gathering in the Audubon Ballroom in New York on February 21, 1965. His chief assassin, Talmadge Hayer, along with two others, was convicted of the murder. There is speculation that the killing was prompted by Malcolm's recantation, following a Haj to Mecca in 1964, of his former hatred of all whites. Where formerly he had preached violence, he had changed his views and saw that peaceful resolution was the path to follow. George Wallace, four time governor of Alabama, was paralyzed in an unsuccessful assassination attempt by Arthur Bremer on May 15, 1972 and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair. Wallace, who had been an ardent racist, became a born-again Christian in the late '70s, and apologized to leaders of the African-American community for his former remarks, views and actions against them. In his final term as Governor of Alabama he appointed a record number of African-Americans to government positions. He died in 1998.
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