Medgar Evers' killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist
Source: mississippitoday
Jerry Mitchell February 5, 2026
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The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”
Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.
Reena Evers-Everette, executive director of the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute and daughter of the couple, said the family has been told the matter is under review, “but the final product has not been put out yet.”
In 1963, Beckwith shot the civil rights leader in the back on the driveway of the Evers family home in northwest Jackson. It would take 31 more years before a Mississippi jury would convict Beckwith.
Jeff Steinberg, founder of Sojourn to the Past, which regularly takes students and police officers on civil rights tours to the home, questioned the change to the Park Service material. “You can’t call Beckwith a racist?” he said. “If you opened a picture dictionary and turned to the definition for ‘racist,’ you’d probably find a picture of Byron De La Beckwith.”.................
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I am speechless.
— Kevin M. Levin (@civilwarmemory.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T15:59:53.747Z
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" ðŸ—ƒï¸ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home in Jackson. Credit: Ashley FG Norwood, Mississippi Today
From the OP article:
Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, speaks of her father’s life and legacy during a memorial tribute held at their former home Saturday, June 12, 2021, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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