National Historic Landmark. The John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation Management and Recreation Act

Rep. Bennie Thompson Wins Efforts to Make Medgar Evers Home National Monument  

Because of the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Evers’ house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, will now become a national historic landmark. The house where Medgar Evers’ was fatally shot was built in the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. Thompson has been working on the honor for Evers for over ten years.