Myrlie Evers, civil right leader and widow of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers, acknowledges the audience applause after the unveiling of the new park sign for Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, June 8, 2023. The event was designed to both celebrate recent preservation and protection efforts that extend access to the Evers story and to open a weekend-long commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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