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Medgar Evers: Life, Death, Legacy

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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, assassinated in 1963, will have a shipped named in his honor.

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Navy Names Ship After Medgar Evers

The U.S. Navy is naming a ship in honor of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was assassinated outside his Jackson home in 1963. Navy Secretary and former Mississippi …

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