Daar was in die afgelope dekade 'n goeierige fliek ook hier oor, as ek
reg onthou.
On Mon, 22 May 2006 16:42:28 -0400, Katryn <streepmuis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Katryn <streepmuis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Vir eers, wil ek graag vir jou 'n liedjie van Bob Dylan, wat
>>hy in 1963 geskryf het, pos. Kou so bietjie daaraan....
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>Torreke, net so bietjie agtergrond oor hierdie liedjie - vanuit
>Wikipedia:
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>Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925–June 12, 1963) was an African American
>civil rights activist from Mississippi.
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>Evers was a native of Decatur, Mississippi, and a graduate of Alcorn
>State University, located in Lorman, Mississippi. Upon completing his
>degree, he applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi
>Law School, basing his attempt on the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling
>in the case of Brown v. Board of Education 347 US 483 that segregation
>was unconstitutional. When his application was rejected on grounds of
>race, Evers became the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the
>school.
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>Evers himself became the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi.
>He was involved in a boycott campaign against white merchants in
>Jackson and instrumental in eventually desegregating the University of
>Mississippi when it was finally forced to enroll James Meredith in
>1962.
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>Just after midnight on 12 June 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated
>just after pulling into his driveway. His death was mourned
>nationally, and he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Bob
>Dylan wrote the song "Only a Pawn in their Game" about Evers and his
>assassin, and Nina Simone wrote "Mississippi Goddamn" in response to
>the event. The man believed to have been his assassin, white racist
>Byron De La Beckwith, was twice acquitted when all-white juries could
>not reach agreement, but in 1994 Beckwith was brought to trial on new
>evidence based on statements he made to others. During the trial, the
>body of Evers was exhumed from his grave for autopsy, and found to be
>in a surprisingly excellent state of preservation. Byron De La
>Beckwith was finally convicted on February 5, 1994, more than three
>decades after the murder. Beckwith appealed the verdict
>unsuccessfully, and he died in prison in 2001.
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>The 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi tells the story of the 1994 trial.
>The Bob Dylan song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" focused on Evers'
>killing as an example of lowly operatives, doing the dirty work for
>their evil masters: "Two eyes took the aim/Behind a man's brain/But he
>can't be blamed/He's only a pawn in their game."
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