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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)

60 years after Medgar Evers’ murder, his widow continues a civil rights legacy

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Home of civil rights icon Evers named as a national monument

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

FILE - Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, attends the funeral for blues legend B.B. King at Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Indianola, Miss., May 30, 2015. Evers, a longtime figure in Mississippi politics, died Wednesday, July 22, 2020. He was 97. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool, File)

Mississippi politico, civil rights figure Charles Evers dies

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Medgar Evers’ legacy honored, 55 years after assassination

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Analysis: Evers’ thoughtful speech sets tone for 2 museums

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 29, 2008 file photo, shows the house of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi civil rights sites, including the home of Evers, should be considered for national monument designation, the U.S. interior secretary says in a memo to President Donald Trump. In Feb. 2017, the National Park Service designated the Evers home a national historic landmark. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Memo: Consider civil rights home for national monument

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Mississippi leaders seek Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers

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Myrlie Evers to speak at Alcorn’s commencement

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