National Monuments - Mississippi

Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument

10/14/2017 Medgar and Myrlie Evers House This was the home of the civil rights activists from 1956 to 1963, when Medgar was killed by a sniper in the carport. [2022 update: this site was authorized as Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home NM in March 2019. Since at the time of authorization, and after land acquisition in December 2020, there were no substantial changes from what we had visited as an NHL, we decided to take credit for the NM based on this visit.]

The simple home from straight on ...

... and an angle

Ken reading ...

... Mississippi Freedom Trail info

MS info

Some pictures from the incident

The front window with bullet hole

That window today