July 12, 1963, the breeze danced coolly through the quaint town of Jackson, Mississippi; however, the actions of one of its "ideal" citizens were even colder. On this memorable evening, a man filled with racist hatred shot and killed a husband, father, and civil rights activist, formerly known as Medgar Evers. A real-life metaphor for Dixie, Byron De Le Beckwith saw nothing wrong with his decision to take a man's life. With his death, Evers passed on his desires for equality and justice for the African-American community to his wife, Myerlie Evers. You might say that Mississippi has been removed from the Dixie way of life, but the Dixie way of life will never be removed from Mississippi. Nearly one hundred years after the height of the Civil War, the town of Jackson, the land of Dixie, still saw nothing wrong with a white man heartlessly killing a black man. That said, Ms. Evers, living in a city where only hate arises, would have needed a lot more ammunition to win her biggest battle. Simply put, he wanted to see Byron De Le Beckwith held accountable for his heinous crime: a guilty verdict followed by many years spent in prison. From here, viewers can ask two questions: What was Dixie, and how did her lifestyle interfere with the community of Jackson in July 1963? At the beginning of the film, the audience meets a rather controversial character. Dixie DeLaughter is a strong representation of the Old South, denoting the criticism that Bobby DeLaughter, her husband, is fighting against throughout the film. The audience notices Mrs. DeLaughter's narrow-mindedness early in the film, when she and her husband attend a routine lunch at the local country club. The camera captures the disbelief in the middle of the card. The people living in the city of Jackson have never strayed from their White Supremacist ideals. With each of his racist actions and crude comments, Byron De Le Beckwith demonstrates how he is a living metaphor for the Dixie mentality. By surrounding himself with these racist ideals, Mr. Beckwith has become so corrupt that he wholeheartedly justifies the murder of an innocent man as a "good deed." While this film was intended to tell the story of Medgar Evers, it also revealed a moment in history that today's society is completely unaware of. Learning about the Dixie way of thinking and the actions that come with it can cause great distress in any person, regardless of skin color. In conclusion, the long steps humanity has taken to evolve from these racist events have demonstrated how the Dixie lifestyle and its accompanying connotations have finally been put to rest..