Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, born in Mississippi in 1925, is being honored today with tours celebrating his life and ...

Two Mississippi Museums celebrate Medgar Evers' lasting impact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people likely see the work of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers as having a profound impact on the progression of civil rights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare, “Medgar Evers believed in his ...

In a new biography, the MSNBC host offers an intimate look at Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, both civil rights leaders in their own right. By Wilson Wong Joy-Ann Reid didn’t set out to ...

I recently returned to my home in Bend, Ore., from Jackson, Miss., the national headquarters of the Medgar Evers Institute. I was weary from my travels. My mouth opened, and I said aloud, "Medgar, 50 ...

WASHINGTON _ Mississippi’s congressional delegation called for President Joe Biden Tuesday to award the late civil rights icon Medgar Evers the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest ...

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 ...

Guidelines for the art contest, sponsored by the group Freedom 250, include material about abolitionists and civil rights leaders, but little mention of what they fought against. By Jennifer ...

The Medgar Evers Library in Jackson, Mississippi, has received upgrades and new murals while the Eudora Welty Library has been demolished. The former Welty Library site will become a park, while the ...

Many people likely see the work of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers as having a profound impact on the progression of civil rights for Black Americans over the past 70 years. And as of July 2, the day ...