Medgar Evers Birthday Celebration
In honor of civil rights icon Medgar Evers’s birthday, admission to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History will be free on Friday, July 2. Admission will include the special exhibit, I AM A MAN: Civil Rights Photographs in the American South, 1960–1970. Museum staff will highlight Evers’s life and legacy through guided tours at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Face masks and social distancing guidelines are required. For more information, visit the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Facebook page.