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Home of civil rights icon Evers named as a national monument

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| December 10, 2020 2:06 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The historic home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is now a national monument, the U.S. interior secretary and members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation announced Thursday.

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