Congressman Thompson floor remarks on designating Medgar Evers home a national monument

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson says the Medgar Evers family home in Jackson, Mississippi, was designated as a national historic landmark in 2017, hallowed ground for those who lived through the struggle for racial equality and the segregation, that the assassination of Evers was the most consequential moment of the civil rights era, assassinated in his driveway by those who saw him trying to make the nation in the perfect union a threat. Thompson says that Medgar Evers earned an indelible place in the annals of American history and the civil rights movement, he was honored to offer legislation honoring the sacrifice of civil rights icon Medgar Evers and his widow by designated their home a national monument.