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Date: 2/19/01
Time: 12:56:20 PM
Natural death they say. Isn't it odd that it is one month after Beckwith dies, the same month in 94 that De Lay Beckwith was convicted and sentenced as well as the same month that Beckwith was turned down for new trial.
(Published: Sunday, February 18, 2001 at 10:24: PM)
Son of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers dead at 47
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- The eldest son of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers has died after a battle with colon cancer.
Darrell Kenyatta Evers died Sunday morning at a hospital near his Los Angeles home, relatives said. He was 47.
His death comes a month after that of his father's killer, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
Darrell Evers watched the 1994 murder trial that ended in Beckwith's conviction for the shooting of the Mississippi NAACP leader in Jackson on June 12, 1963.
Two years later, Darrell played himself in the 1996 Rob Reiner film, "Ghosts of Mississippi."
Charles Evers, Medgar Evers' brother, said Darrell resembled his father.
"He was tall and his mannerisms were just like his father," Charles Evers said Sunday in Jackson. "He was very kind like Medgar was."
As the oldest child of Medgar Evers, Darrell was expected by some to become politically active, but he took a different path.
He expressed his views through art, and his avant-garde paintings were collected by the likes of Henry Luce II and hair designer Vidal Sasson. His work reflected on prejudice and on his father's life and death; one painting was titled, "Oh My God, They've Moved in Next Door."
In the 1990s, Evers founded Intellikey Labs in Burbank with his wife, Lauren, creating one of the nation's largest quality-control DVD companies.
In addition to his wife and uncle, Darrell Evers is survived by his son, Keanan; his sister, Reena Evers-Everette of Los Angeles; his brother, James Van Evers of Los Angeles; and his mother, Myrlie Evers-Williams of Bend, Ore.