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Article: Medgar Evers' death commemorated at Arlington Cemetery.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- June 16, 2003
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Byline: Lauren Wilbert
WASHINGTON _ Some came with words of inspiration, others with expressions of congratulations, but all came to remember and celebrate a since-passed friend and civil-rights activist Medgar Evers.
The ceremony, at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, commemorated the 40th anniversary of Evers' death. The World War II veteran spent years building the civil-rights movement in Mississippi from the time he graduated from college in 1952 until his murder in 1963.
Evers' wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, spoke to a crowd of about 150 friends, family, high school students and dignitaries including Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., ...