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Will Mississippi’s New Civil Rights Museum Tell the Truth About the State’s Troublesome Past?

Myrlie Evers-Williams once had a hard time understanding how her husband could still love their home state of Mississippi so deeply. After all, Medgar Evers grew up in the segregated South and, like many African Americans, left America to fight in Europe during World War II, only to return to a state where black veterans…

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R.L. Nave

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December 7, 2017

R.L. Nave is a writer and editor in Mississippi. A native St. Louis, he writes for national, regional and local publications.