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January 12, 2017

Slain Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Honored with Historic Landmark
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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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