[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H301-H302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  MEDGAR EVERS HOME NATIONAL MONUMENT

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, today I will introduce H.R.

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356, the Medgar Evers Home National Monument Act. The home is located 
in Jackson, Mississippi.
  The Evers family home, which was designated a National Historic 
Landmark in 2017, is hallowed ground for those of us who lived through 
the struggle for racial equality and desegregation. That single-story, 
ranch-style home bore witness to one of the most consequential 
monuments in the civil rights era, the assassination of Medgar Wiley 
Evers.
  I am honored to, in my capacity as Congressman of the Second 
Congressional District of Mississippi, to offer this legislation to 
honor the sacrifice of not just civil rights icon Medgar Evers, but his 
widow, Myrlie, by designating their home as a national monument.
  Due to bipartisan efforts last Congress, this legislation passed 
through the Committee on Natural Resources and ultimately passed the 
House by unanimous consent. I am asking that we make this happen again 
and honor the legacy of an icon in American history, Medgar Wiley 
Evers.
  I urge everyone to support this legislation.

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