Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument

"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."

"The placid teal-and-brick ranch house exterior of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, where the civil rights martyr and his family lived before he was gunned down in his driveway in 1963, belies the danger that lurked inside, where children's mattresses were laid on the floor and window heights raised to avoid bullets. It is painful to be reminded of the ways African Americans have had to adapt in the face of threats both unseen and expected—a fact of life that persists today, if in different forms. Black parents give children The Talk, with all its endless clauses: how to act when Driving While Black, Sleeping While Black, and Walking While Black."