You can learn about the legacy of Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. Close ...

The Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute and Mississippi Votes Action Fund will celebrate Medgar Evers’ 100th birthday. “Medgar ...

Medgar Evers’ life will be celebrated this summer on what would have been his 100th birthday. Voting activist Stacey Abrams ...

Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights organizer Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway in Jackson, Miss. He stepped out of his Oldsmobile carrying shirts ...

OPINION: Sixty years after Medgar Evers' assassination, many people still don't know his story and how he helped lead the fight for civil rights. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated by ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The violent threats against civil rights leader Medgar Evers from white supremacists in Mississippi were escalating in 1963. The phone at the family’s home in Jackson rang off ...

Monday marks 60 years since civil rights activist Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his Mississippi home while his three children and wife, Myrlie Evers, were feet away. His murder ignited ...

Video above: Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers and King of the Blues, B.B. King were given a centennial celebration for all of their contributions to Mississippi.In honor of Black History Month ...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on Friday. He was named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of ...

During the annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, Myrlie Evers-Williams spoke about how Medgar Evers was killed in front of the house where he died. Watch an excerpt of her speech in the ...