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Assassin kills NAACP leader Medgar Evers
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NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is shot and killed in front of his house in Jackson, Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
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June 4, 1963
King requests inquiry into Atlantic Steel hiring practices
June 10, 1963
King criticizes Kennedy, talks over phone with advisors
June 13, 1963
King turns down Kennedy invitation
June 27, 1963
King gives interview with LOOK Magazine
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