Civil rights sites considered for national park status

Seattle Times Medgar EversMedgar EversEmmett Till
Sunday, 29 April 2018 ()
Civil rights sites considered for national park statusJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal agency will hold six hearings about a proposal to give national park status to Mississippi civil rights sites. The sites are the Jackson home where Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963; a store and courthouse connected to the 1955 slaying of black teenager Emmett Till; the […]
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