Medgar Evers was one of the most influential figures in the Civil Rights Movement. Evers' assassination in the carport of his Jackson home, now a national monument, in 1963 is considered the first ...

A week after Pentagon leaders announced their intention to possibly rename the USNS Medgar Evers, christened for the World War II veteran and civil rights leader, his family urged the Department of ...

The Jackson City Council has unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense to reverse their decision to remove civil rights icon Medgar Evers' name from the USNS ...

Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP and a prominent activist and organizer, was assassinated at his Jackson, Mississippi, home in 1963. Under Sweeping Public Lands Bill, Civil Rights Leader ...

Medgar Evers, state secretary for the NAACP, in Jackson in 1955. Pearl River Community College premiered a musical piece this week in honor of Evers. AP File AP Jackson City Council passed resolution ...

July 2 was the 100th anniversary of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers’ birth. He's remembered each year during the NAACP’s national convention, which opened in Charlotte last week. As the first ...

JACKSON, Miss. — At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, as she reflects on his work to push ...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran, was murdered in 1963 after years of fighting for equality. The Pentagon plans to remove Evers' name, along with other civil rights icons, from Navy ...

(The Root) — Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and the timing couldn’t be more significant: Any day now, the Supreme Court could strike ...

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 ...