Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
Park History
NPSHistory.comMedgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, preserves the modest ranch-style house where civil rights leader Medgar Evers lived with his wife Myrlie and their three children. Evers served as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, organizing voter registration drives, economic boycotts, and investigations into racial violence during the height of the civil rights movement. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated in his driveway by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith — a murder that galvanized the civil rights movement and contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The site was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama in 2020. Myrlie Evers-Williams went on to become a prominent civil rights leader in her own right, serving as chair of the NAACP.
CONFIRMED REMOVED: Publications (1 items)
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in MS preserves a piece of American history that the public has trusted the National Park Service to protect and interpret. The visitor publications at this site have been developed over years by historians, subject-matter experts, and park staff — and are now being reviewed under Secretary's Order 3431.
From the internal review records: “(Sec. 2301) This section establishes the Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Mississippi as an NPS unit to preserve, protect, and interpret the resources associated with the pivotal role of Medgar and Myrlie Evers in the civil rights movement. The NPS shall seek to enter into a cooperative agreement with Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, for interpretive and educationa...”
Why this matters: The civil rights history documented at Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is not a matter of opinion — it is the factual record of how Americans fought for the rights promised by our founding documents. These events occurred within living memory. The people who marched, sat in, and sacrificed are still alive to tell their stories.
Update (February 5, 2026): Mississippi Today reported brochures were removed from the site, with planned edits to remove the word "racist" describing Byron De La Beckwith and references to Medgar Evers "lying in a pool of blood." Hours after press coverage, the original brochures were returned. However, park rangers were also instructed to stop referring to Beckwith as a "racist" on tours, and censored replacement brochures are still planned.
- brochures removed, then returned
- Junior Ranger book
- Junior Ranger book; reason: Disparages Americans past or living; now: Discarded
This site bulletin provides a park overview for MEMY. They do not yet have an official unigrid. This publication received approval from Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of Medgar and Myrlie Evers and director of park partner, The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.
Note: The information about hours of operation and house tours needs to be updated before next printing.
Park Enabling legislation through Dingell Act: (Sec. 2301) This section establishes the Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Mississippi as an NPS unit to preserve, protect, and interpret the resources associated with the pivotal role of Medgar and Myrlie Evers in the civil rights movement. The NPS shall seek to enter into a cooperative agreement with Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, for interpretive and educational programming services related to the monument. The NPS may enter into agreements with the owner of a nationally significant property within the Medgar Evers Historic District to identify, mark, interpret, and furnish technical assistance with respect to preserving and interpreting such property.
Photographs attached to this park's records in the leaked NPS review database.
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