6. Murder Of Medgar Evers – Jackson, Mississippi, 1963
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist, husband and father who was assassinated by KKK member Byron De La Beckwith in his driveway while returning home from a meeting with NAACP lawyers.
7. Murder Of Viola Liuzzo – Selma, Alabama 1965
Viola Liuzzo was a White civil rights activist, mother and wife. She was shot twice in the head by four KKK members who became enraged after seeing her riding in the car with a Black man, who was also an activist.
8. Michael Donald Murder – Mobile, Alabama, 1981
Michael Donald was killed by KKK members after being charged with the murder of a White policeman. The Klan members beat him with a tree limb, strangled him with a rope and slit his throat, before later hanging him from a tree in a local neighborhood yard.
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