On this day, 12 June 1963, Medgar Wiley Evers, an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, was shot in the back and killed by Byron De La Beckwith as he pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting in the early morning.
Beckwith, a white supremacist and member of the White Citizens’ Council, was arrested, but when he was put on trial – twice – by all-white juries, they were all illegally screened and investigated by the state beforehand. The former governor of the state interrupted the second trial to shake his hand while Evers’ widow, Myrlie, was testifying. So Beckwith walked free, and for years boasted about the murder at KKK rallies. He also unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination as a gubernatorial candidate.
However, after years of campaigning by Myrlie, she succeeded in getting the case reopened, and in 1994 Beckwith was eventually convicted and put in prison where he died a few years later. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1449259748592504/?type=3
I ended up sowing the rest of the seeds yesterday as well, I wanted to know I’m done with them. And with that little green tray added, my seed starting windowsill in full again.
I didn’t do loofahs and cucamelons, I’m going to try to sow them directly outside, as last year I started them inside and they didn’t do well. I always sow cucumbers and pumpkins directly outside and figured since these are from the same family, they’ll be fine. I still have the peppers to sow, I really, really want to try the Peter peppers at least, but since starting peppers has been a complete failure in the past 2 or 3 years, I’m still thinking about what to do with them.
