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Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Honored with NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award
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Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Honored with NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMediaSeptember 17, 2020

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College, will receive the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 2020 National Leadership Award.

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

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor March 21, 2019

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.