January 16:Tennessee
Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
opens on Broadway. It closes after 69 performances.
January 6:Stark Young
died in New York. He was buried in Friendship Cemetery in Como, Mississippi.
March 28:John Faulkner
died in Oxford, Mississippi and was buried in St. Peters Cemetery in Oxford.
Because of disagreement over the spelling of his name, it is spelled Falkner
on one side of the stone, Faulkner on the other, and Fa(u)lkner
on the flat stone topping his grave.
June 12: Civil rights activist Medgar
Evers was shot and killed by an assassins bullet in front of his
home in Jackson, Mississippi. The accused assassin, white supremacist Byron
de La Beckwith, is tried twice over the next few years but each trial ends in
mistrial as the all-white juries could not reach a verdict. He would finally
be convicted for the crime more than 30 years after Evers death.