2013/05/17 — The National NAACP Board of Directors, which is holding its meeting in Jackson this week to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of Civil Rights legend Medgar Wiley Evers, got a tour of some of the city’s historic sites that played pivotal roles in the eradication of Jim Crow laws. Members hopped… Read more
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NAACP President & CEO, Ben Jealous Interviews with the Mississippi Edition of MPB [Audio]
2013/05/17 – The NAACP will hold their Annual Meeting in Jackson for the first time in 30 years, we talk with NAACP National President, Ben Jealous. Listen to the Full Interview: Source: MPB online
Medgar Evers’ Widow, NAACP CEO Honor Solemn Anniversary
2013/05/16 — Nearly 50 years ago, a young up-and-coming civil rights leader, husband and father in Jackson, Miss., was shot and killed outside of his home. Today, Medgar Evers’ window, Myrlie Evers-WIlliams, NAACP CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous and board chairwoman Roslyn Brock laid a wreath at the home of Medgar Evers in honor of the… Read more
NAACP Board Honors Evers’ Memory in Mississippi Capital
2013/05/16 — The national board of the NAACP is meeting in Mississippi’s capital city for the first time in 30 years. The conference started Wednesday night and goes through Saturday. It includes a wreath-laying ceremony and a gospel concert to remember Medgar Evers. The Mississippi NAACP field secretary was assassinated 50 years ago outside his… Read more
NAACP Board Honors Evers’ Memory in Miss. Capital
2013/05/16 — NAACP leaders from around the country 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… Read more
‘A Righteous Day’ to Remember Evers
2013/05/16 — The story of Medgar Evers’ assassination 50 years ago is well-known—particularly to people in Jackson, where the murder took place—but there’s something about hearing his widow, Myrlie, recount the night of June 12, 1963. “They knew the sound of the motor,” Myrlie Evers-Williams said of their children, speaking this morning outside her former… Read more
NAACP Board Honors Evers’ Memory in Miss. Capital
2013/05/16 — The national board of the NAACP is meeting in Mississippi’s capital city for the first time in 30 years. The conference started Wednesday night and goes through Saturday. It includes a wreath-laying ceremony and a gospel concert to remember Medgar Evers. The Mississippi NAACP field secretary was assassinated 50 years ago outside his family… Read more
A Lingering Taint of Pain for Myrlie Evers-Williams
2013/05/16 — Myrlie Evers-Williams proudly pronounced that she was “back in Mississippi” May 16 at the podium in front of her old Guynes Street home. After years living outside the state, Evers-Williams joined the National Board of the NAACP that day in celebrating the life of her husband Medgar Wiley Evers, an NAACP field secretary,… Read more
Medgar Evers: An American Hero
2013/05/16 — The National Board of the NAACP will be meeting in Jackson, MS for the first time in several decades to commemorate 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of Medgar Evers. A Press Conference will be held today at the former home of Medgar Evers by Myrlie Evers-Williams; Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the NAACP National… Read more
National NAACP Board Meet in Jackson, Pay Tribute to Medgar Evers
2013/05/14 – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP is proud to announce that the National NAACP Board of Directors will be holding its meeting in Jackson to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers. “The National NAACP board hasn’t held a meeting here in Jackson for 30 years,” said former Supreme Court Justice Fred… Read more