Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument

These Sites Honor the Legacy of Black Women Throughout the South

"The story of Medgar Evers’s short life and subsequent murder is haunting. A few years ago when I embarked on a road trip throughout the South, I stopped in Jackson and peered at the house he and his wife Myrlie Evers-Williams used to live in. It looked like a regular, cozy home. But it was also the site of where he was murdered in his own driveway. Medgar died in 1963; his wife is still alive. Evers-Williams has continued her work, later becoming the first female chair of the NAACP chapter that she worked at alongside her late husband. Visit their former home, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum for an exhibit on both of them, and the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute to reflect upon the legacy he left behind and the woman ensuring it remains present even today."