JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The north Jackson subdivision that includes home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Medgar Evers Historic District is about three miles northwest of downtown Jackson. It encompasses 44 buildings, mostly ranch-style houses, built in the 1950s and '60s by African-American developers for middle-class black families.
Evers was the first field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP, and he was assassinated outside his family's home in June 1963.
Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, donated the house to Tougaloo College in 1993, and it's now a small museum. The house — tan brick with green trim — has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000.
The U.S. Interior Department recently approved the historic district listing (http://1.usa.gov/1arT7ZD).
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