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    in 1963 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens'...
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    The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, also known as Medgar Evers House, is a historic house museum at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive...
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    Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, the former home of African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925–1963). Poet and writer Margaret...
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    Medal. In 2017 the Medgar and Myrlie Evers House was named as a National Historic Landmark, and in 2019 became a National Monument. After leaving her...
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    civil rights movement along with his younger brother Medgar Evers. After serving in World War II, Evers began his career as a disc jockey at WHOC in Philadelphia...
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    rights activist Medgar Evers, while Irene Cara co-stars as his wife (and future NAACP chairperson) Myrlie. The film concentrates on Medgar Evers, an ex-insurance...
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    Park Freedom Riders National Monument Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument Civil rights movement in popular culture National Register of Historic...
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    of Medgar Evers in Mississippi, the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, and the murder of Vernon Dahmer in his Mississippi home, the...
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  • The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama,...
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    parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration...
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