NAACP leaders from around the United States are honoring the memory of the group's former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated outside his Jackson home.
NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous and board chairwoman Roslyn Brock helped Evers' widow lay a wreath of yellow and white flowers Thursday at the modest one-story house, now a museum.
Myrlie Evers-Williams told nearly 200 people that she and her husband knew his civil rights work put his life
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