MEDGAR EVERS TO POSTHUMOUSLY RECEIVE THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
May 02, 2024
May 02, 2024
WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release:
Miss. Congressional Delegation Had Encouraged President Biden to Honor Slain Civil Rights Leader
The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be awarded posthumously today to Medgar Wiley Evers, the World War II veteran and civil rights leader who was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss.
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Ci . . .
Miss. Congressional Delegation Had Encouraged President Biden to Honor Slain Civil Rights Leader
The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be awarded posthumously today to Medgar Wiley Evers, the World War II veteran and civil rights leader who was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss.
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Ci . . .