Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) Medgar Evers, civil rights leader and Mississippi resident, was shot dead in front of his home in 1963 when I was a young boy. Evers’s legacy had a lasting effect on the 13-term Congressman. “I was very, very young when he was killed in his driveway by a man who saw him as…
Rep. Bennie Thompson ( D- Miss. ) when the 1963 shooting at his Mississippi home resulted in the death of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. But Evers’s legacy left a profound impact on the 13- term congressman. When a fellow who apparently saw him as… died in his driveway at the age of… Rep. Bennie Thompson ( D- Miss. ) when the 1963 shooting at his Mississippi home resulted in the death of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. But Evers’s legacy left a profound impact on the 13- term congressman. When a fellow who apparently saw him as… died in his driveway at the age of…
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) Medgar Evers, civil rights leader and Mississippi resident, was shot dead in front of his home in 1963 when I was a young boy. Evers’s legacy had a lasting effect on the 13-term Congressman. “I was very, very young when he was killed in his driveway by a man who saw him as…
