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Reena Evers-Everette


Civil Rights icon, Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12, 1963.   His dynamic, committed and compassionate daughter, Reena Evers-Everette, will share how the vision of her father and mother continues through the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute in Jackson, Mississippi.   She will share her personal experience of suffering and resiliency. She will detail living the mission of the institute: cultivating positive social change, intergenerational civic engagement, through research on social equity and justice worldwide. 

 

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