Trump makes national monument of civil rights' leaders home

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi home of a slain civil rights leader is becoming a national monument. President Donald Trump signed a bill Tuesday establishing the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson. Medgar Evers was Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary beginning in 1954. He led voter ...

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