Medgar Evers Home National Monument
National Monument · Jackson, Mississippi
A small ranch house on a quiet street in Jackson, and the driveway in which Medgar Evers was shot in the back just after midnight on 12 June 1963, hours after Kennedy had gone on television to call civil rights a moral issue. He was thirty-seven and was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. The house was built with no front door onto the street and the family came and went through the carport, because the risk was understood; his children had been taught to lie on the floor if they heard shooting. Byron De La Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 to hung juries and convicted in 1994, thirty-one years later.
2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, Jackson, Mississippi, 39213, United States
ACCESS IS BY ARRANGEMENT, not by turning up. The house is owned by Tougaloo College and operated in partnership with the National Park Service, it stands on a residential street, and visits are on scheduled tours or by appointment. Check nps.gov and contact the site before travelling. The exterior and the driveway can be seen from the public street at any time.
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