Lawmakers seek national monument title for Evers’ home
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, and Cindy Hyde-Smith have reintroduced legislation that would designate the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home in Jackson as a national monument...
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Featured Evers’ home becomes Civil Rights landmark
Today U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke designated the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home as an official African American Civil Rights Network (AARCN) site. He...
Medgar Evers home on its way to becoming national monument
by Alex Paton
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, and Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced legislation to designate the Medgar Evers Home in Jackson as a national monument within the National Park System....
Medgar Evers Home Now a National Landmark
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have celebrated the National Park Service decision to designate the Medgar Wiley and...
Mississippi congressional delegation requests Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Mississippi congressional delegation requested that President Obama posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Medgar Wiley Evers, the distinguished civil...
Medgar Evers Jackson home could be listed as a National Park Service unit
by Sarah Ulmer
JACKSON, Miss.- The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a measure that would designate the home of civil rights leader Medgar Evers as...
Medgar Evers Remembered in D.C., Now Jackson
by kim
JACKSON, Miss.–It was June 12, 1963 when assassin Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist, put a bullet in the back of civil rights leader Medgar...
Medgar Evers Events Mark 50 Years Since Assassination
by kim
JACKSON, Miss.–It was June 12, 1963 when white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith gunned down Medgar Evers, the 37-year-old field secretary for Mississippi’s NAACP. Since...