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Slain Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Honored with Historic Landmark

HeadlineJan 12, 2017

The National Parks Service said Wednesday it will honor slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers by naming his former home as a National Historic Landmark. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. He had served as the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi, working to end segregation and racist violence.

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